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Drawing, Textile Design for Ballet “Scheherazade”, ca. 1920
Stylized fern or iris motifs on a ground of chains and lozenges. Central motif, with different color combinations, was employed on a chaise à porteurs, for the ballet Shéhérazade.
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Sleeve (China), 19th century
Deep golden yellow satin with symmetrical design of a phoenix in floral arabesque on either side of large floral rosette. In bright silk satin stitch with details in French knots,…
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Man’s Shirt (Guatemala), 1925–50
Long straight shirt made of two lengths of heavy white cotton with thin red stripes (two warps, three wefts). Very short narrow sleeves of red cloth with two wide bands…
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Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Huipil made of three lengths stitched together. Dark blue cotton cloth with double warps and double wefts covered in long red floats. Design of triangles and diamonds in blue, green,…
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Perraje (shawl) (Guatemala), 1900–1955
Dark blue weft-ribbed shawl with double warps and wefts. Jaspe pattern in close-set bands with geometric and abstract figurative design in white, red, yellow and green. Warps plaited into deep…
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Textile (Guatemala), early 20th century
Square with large plaid in shades of red and white with large central panel of close-set zigzags, stripes and small geometrical figures in shades of bright pink, green, lavender, white…
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Skirt (Guatemala), 1925–50
Windowpane red and blue plaid with broad horizontal bands in dark blue and white jaspe stripes with four repeating female figures. Both selvages have dark blue warps.
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Huipil (uncut) (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Square panel made of three lengths of plain cloth, stitched together side by side, each with supplementary weft patterning in closely set horizontal rows of stylized human and bird figures.…
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Textile (Guatemala), 1925–50
Square panel made of three breadths of plain weave, brocaded. Closely set horizontal rows of stylized human and bird figures. Large dots brocaded in thick multi-ply cotton yarns in white,…
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