Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sampler (USA), 1827

  Sampler embroidered in red, black and blue on a white ground, with the alphabet and inscription Susanna Meck 1827 at the top, and many small detached motifs including animals, birds,…

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  Belt (Russia), late 19th century

  Ribbon belt in silver cloth with black silk strips and figures. Six convex buttons and two-part buckle ornamented in scrolling stem and leaf design and the word “Kavkaz” (Caucasus) in…

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  Textile (Russia)

  Floral serpentines brocaded in colored silks on background of gold and silver arranged in vertical stripes.

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  Sampler (England), 17th century

  Thirteen cross borders in cutwork with needlepoint stitches and embroidery in satin and curled stitches.

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  Capelet (Russia), 18th century

  Part of a garment made from silver brocade with salmon-colored silk ruffles and lined with twill in natural wool.

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  Scarf (France), 19th century

  Three cornered lace scarf. Probably Empire style.

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  Textile (Russia), 18th century

  Diagonal repeat of large symmetrical tulip-like flowers with smaller tulip and broad-toothed leaves on either side of stem. Diamond rosette diaper filling interstices. In tarnished white metal threads in plain…

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  Scarf (Indonesia), early 20th century

  Narrow length of batik in brown, dark blue, white, and tan.Tumpal motif (row of isosceles triangles) at ends and large sawat or mironj motif (wings of Garuda, mount of Vishnu)…

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  Scarf, 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow scarf with ends decorated in deep borders that embroidered in red, blue and pale green in a series of geometric designs. Shorts tassels of green, red and blue…

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  Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

  Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…