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Printing Block (India), 1952–53
Small block for printing embroidery designs. Carved of hard wood and used to print Chickan embroidery patterns. Shows a design of two roosters in profile with plant forms in between.
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Towel, 19th century
Long linen towel with broad decorated central area made up of wide and narrow cutwork and embroidery bands with floral or geometrical designs and one broad band with initials “M.A.D.”…
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Towel (Denmark), 1824
Long vertical towel of undyed linen with three broad bands of embroidery and drawn work in white linen thread in symmetrical designs. Motifs include: horsemen, floral forms, initials “M.O.D.” and…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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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Printing Block (Germany), mid-18th–mid-19th century
Allover geometric pattern made by squares and diagonals.
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