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  • Towel (Denmark), 19th century

    Long vertical panel with three broad bands of symmetrical decoration in drawn work: birds, flowers, star-in-medallions, flowering vase and confronted lions, bird and flower guard strips. Untwisted fringe with deep…

  • Towel (Greece), late 18th–early 19th century

    Each end of a plain white towel embroidered with a large stylized floral ornament rising out of a small vase, in white silk, silk floss, and small, tarnished silver discs,…

  • Towel (Greece), 18th century

    Cream-colored panel embroidered with cream raw silk and silk floss, with drawn work. One end, almost half the towel, has two stylized vines containing tulip with 8-lobed rosette on stem…

  • Towel (USA), 1940

    Fine undyed silk towel, closely woven, with simple broad decorated band in leno across one end, narrow band at other end. Plain selvedges on long sides, hand-hemmed on short sides.

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