Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Fragment (Afghanistan), before 1906

  Scaled and blurred medium-scale geometric design in drimson, gold, rust, white, and green on ground in shades of deep blue. two crimson twill selvedges with paired white pencil stripes.

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  Cap (Afghanistan), mid-19th century

  Undyed cotton quilted into narrow ribs, possibly over cording. Cording is over embroidery of coarse satin stitches in orange, black, yellow and green in a pattern of various stylized floral…

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  Cap (Afghanistan), 19th century

  Cap decorated with long ovoids surrounded by stylized borders. Multicolored silks are embroidered using coarse satin stitch in purple, pink, yellow and green. Quilted cords make ridges that give stucture…

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  Sidewall Sample (USA), 1880–90

  Fragmentary wallpapers from sample book, including aesthetic-style and Anglo-Japanesque designs. 72 pages of samples.

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  Scarf (Afghanistan), 20th century

  Resist pattern of a series of squares containing “butahs” or cone shapes. Borders of the squares contain a curving vine pattern. Pattern is yellow on dark green and within each…

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  Woman’s Robe (munisak) (Afghanistan), late 19th century

  Woman’s coat with full skirt gathered into the waist seam, asymmetrical front opening, and long sleeves which narrow to the wrist, made of silk warp ikat in bright colors of…

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  Sidewall Sample (France), ca. 1930

  Chinoiserie design of pagodas, boats and flowers. Printed in burgundy, black, brown and gold on a red ground.

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  Sidewall Sample, ca. 1930

  Flowering cherry tree branches with weeping foliage. Printed in pink, magenta, green, black and gold on a mottled grey ground.

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  Sidewall Sample (France), ca. 1930

  Flowering cherry tree branches with weeping foliage. Printed in purple, dark red, orange, violet, black and gold on an orange mottled ground.

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  Sidewall Sample (France), ca. 1930

  Flowering cherry tree branches with weeping foliage. Printed in black, yellow ocher, blue and brown on a mottled brown ground. Room illustration attached.