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Border (Greece), 18th century
Skirt border of natural-colored linen, embroidered in blue, green, yellow, red, cream and white silks. Design of stylized flowers in pots, mermaids, and birds. Needle lace edge.
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Cushion Cover (Greece), 18th century
Cushion cover of heavy, hand-woven linen, dyed in indigo. Embroidered with red, white and buff silk in a geometric design of star and leaf forms. The motifs have saw-tooth edges,…
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Bed Hanging (Greece), 18th–19th century
Three panels of heavy unbleached linen tabby sewn together and embroidered in red silk in typical Naxian large-scale pattern of 4-pointed stars filled in with long diamond or leaf shapes…
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Valance (Greece), 18th–19th century
Wide valance of linen in two parts, joined horizontally by a narrow band of ribbon. Lower half is embroidered with horizontal rows of stylized leaves, almost square in form, alternately…
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Valence (Greece), 18th–19th century
Two widths of linen sewn to a red and green striped silk ribbon, embroidered in red and green silk cross stitch. Lower width: large units of Glastra pattern in a…
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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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Textile (Greece), 18th century
A very stylized tree form, with sawtooth-edged braches springing diagonally in from a central trunk to form a chevron. The branches are decorated with voided squares and tiny crosses. Embroidered…
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Textile (Greece), 19th century
Unbleached heavy cotton, embroidered in colored silk floss with fantastic birds, trees, animals, and medallions.
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Border (Greece), 18th century
Fragment pieced in two places. Cream-colored hand-woven linen, embroidered in red, green, yellow, blue and pale rose silks. Stylized plant form flanked by birds in profile. Narrow geometric guard borders.
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