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Square, batik, cotton. Birds and grotesque figures on light tan ground. Wide border of brown fruit and leaves on blue ground. At the request of Mr. Plimpton this printed fabric was washed in Ivory Snow on February 2, 1950 by Mr. Soulen and Jim Cooper.

Batik panel, late 19th century–early 20th century

Indonesia

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Two borders of purple embroidery joined with a woven stitch. Seam through the center. Pattern typical of embroideries made in the city of Fez. On linen.

Embroidered borders, 19th century

Morocco

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Part of bed tent embroidered with red and green silk in darning stitch. The "Queen Pattern" in single units are set vertically one above the other. Alternating group of islands known as the Southern Sporades. Probably from the island of Cos. Wider at the bottom than at the top.

Bed tent, 18th century

Greek Islands

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sari, black silk. Widfe woven border of palmettes at one end and narrow border on both sides

Sari, 19th century

India

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Panel, 19th century

Russia

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Square of finely striped black and white silk material with heavy striped borders at each end of red, green, gold and silver. Finished at both ends with a fringe of small tassels and with larger tassels at each corner.

Square of Material, 19th century

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Coarsely woven mat with bands at top and bottom of red and dark blue ad, in the center, three wide red stripes on a blue ground. Finished at top and bottom with white warp fringe.

Mat, 19th century

India

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Scarf, 19th century

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Panle of rose red satin with decoration of yellow and white diamond shapes. Finished at each end with irregular yellow stripes and at each side with green borders.

Panel, 19th century

Uzbekistan

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long band of silk tapestry known as tsuzure-ori, literally, 'patched weaving'; clouds, a flying bird and a large blue flower against a henna ground. Two small silk and gold tapestry squares set in each end; lined with silk painted with leaves and flowers on a green ground.

(Tapestry), 19th century

Unknown Japanese

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Cover of yellow brocade with a silver sheen resulting from silver threads in the weft. Patterned with black fret design and peonies outlined in black. Finished with aborder of green satin brocade and lined with cotton material.

Panel, 19th century

China

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Panel of heavy red satin brocaded in yellow with zig-zag borders of Arabic characters. Finished with an added border of red satin and lined with dark blue.

Panel, 19th century

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Panel of coarsely woven linen with lines of white cotton thread in the weft and with small medallions of leaves and blossom worked in tapestry weave. Similar in style to fabrics made in the V and VI centuries. A.D. (Transitional period - Roman to Coptic, linen.

Panel, 20th century

Egypt

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Irregular fragments of brocade sewed together, possibly part of a costume. Patterned with large and small palmettes and yellow flowers on a dull blue ground.

Panel, 19th century

India

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Sari of white satin. Field embroidered with rows of tiny green flowers. At one end a row of six large palmette shapes, with a peacock and flowering bush embroidered inside, from the border. The border at the other end consists of three rows of smaller palmettes. Narrow border on either side.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Coat, dark blue broadcloth, embroidered in gold thread. Opens down the front. Unlined. A few moth holes. Wool and metal thread.

Coat, 19th century

Iran

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Strip of dark purple satin material with small pattern in light purple made with tie and die batik, over which crosses embroidered in matting stitch alternate with tiny mirrors enclosed in buttonhole stitch. Part of a larger piece, possibly a pulchari. At one side a short strip of mirror and chain stitch border has been restored. Satin, embroidered.

Panel, 19th century

India

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Embroidered sile Khilim of the type used for hanging, or coverlet. Faded henna field embroidred in squares which contain various geometrical designs. Made in two pieces and sewed together. Border of triangles and squares containing triangles. Short web with knotted warp threads at one end, loose warp threads at other end. Wool.

Sile Khilim, 19th century

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Woman's short coat of black satin embroidered in Peking stitch and satin stitch with large sprays of peonies. Worked with silk thread in shades of blue. Lined with light blue silk.

Woman's Jacket, 19th century

China

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Coat of mouse-colored satin brocaded with large round medallions, floral sprays, and at the bottom with wave pattern. Slit openings at side and back, Lined with light blue silk.

Medallion Robe, 19th century

China

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Piece of tan material thickly embrodered - the borders at either side with patterns similar to shawl patterns, and the center with medallions of various sizes surrounded by an all-over floral vine pattern. Probably part of a larger piece. Cotton, embroidered.

Panel, 19th century

India

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Saddle bag with front of black woolen material embroidered in the center with a triangle placed in an oblong and surrounded by four borders filled with diamond shapes or triangles. The back is cotton and has two leather loops attached at the top.

Saddle bag, 19th century

Russia

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Two pieces of red and green silk embroidery on tan linen. Border design of conventionalized birds in pairs facing a vase holding three flowers. Pattern typical of those made in city of Azemour.

Panel, 18th century

Morocco

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Towel of loosely woven linen material embroidered in silk thread with pattern at each end of leaves, flowers and vines which fill the corners leaving a diamond shaped panel of plain material in the center. Blue and shades of rose are the predominating colors. Linen.

Towel, 19th century

Turkey

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Three border ends of towel scarves sewn together. The linen materal is embroidered with meetal and linen thread in conventionalized flowerg plant motifs. Each of the three sections has cream silk borders woven into the sides of the material. White, pink, and blue threads are used.

Towel Fragment, 19th century

Greece

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Panel of red satin embroidered with large conventionalized flower motifs in rows of three and worked with colored silks, mostly white, green and blue. Finished with an added border.

Panel, 19th century

Turkey

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Towel-scarf, of fine material embroidered in colored silks, gold thread and tinsel in a border at each end made of five vertical green stalks with bands of pink and gold flowers between every two stalks. Finished the same at each side. Gold lace finishes each end. Both sides bound with a white silk thread. Seam in center. Cotton, silk embroidery.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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Oblong cover of coarse linen embroidered all over with floral patterns in red, green and blue silk threads. Worked partly in drawn thread work and partly in cross stitch. Finished at one time with a heavy silk lace which has been almost all cut away and stitched down under a blue sateen lining. Made in several parts and patched together. Three tassels at each end.

Oblong cover, 19th century

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Short sari of white cotton material with borders woven in gold and colored silks added at both sides and a wider silk and gold border at each end decorated with nine palmette patterns.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Oblong panel of embroidery on fragment of linen cloth. The pattern worked in red, green and dark blue silks and silver thread, consists of interlocking rows of flowering plants, much conventionalized.

Oblong panel, 19th century

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Mat, Samarkand type, small, with one large floral medallion in center and a smaller one below it. Gold field scattered with flowers in profile and stiff vines. Three borders, the outer one plain red, the inner ones carrying the Greek meander on red grounds. Two guard stripes, one black and one pale blue separate the borders. Side sovercast in red wool; one end finished with short web and twisted warp fringe. The other has a short fringe of warp threads. Warp cotton; woof cotton. Senna knot.

Mat, 19th century

Turkey

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31.81.12-15 Camel bags, portion of. Black woolen strip embroidered in lozenge design in yellow, blue, red and green. This is probably nomad work. Wool.

Camel Bag, 19th century

Turkey

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Khilim rug woven by Karamanians- nomads of Turkoman descent. Dark blue ground with bold octagon designs in red, brown and green. This Khilim has been woven in two pieces so irregularly that when placed together the octagons, woven half upon each piece, do not coincide. There is a long fringe at one end and a short one at the other.

Khilim rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Scarf of coarsely woven mustard colored woolen material embroiderd at both ends with bands of carse geometrical pattern. Both ends are finished with loose fringe.

Scarf, 19th century

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Doshalla or long shawl with yellow ground and broder of large palmettes woven in blues and green at each end. Borders of small palmettes at each end. A narrow border woven separately in blues and greens on a white ground finishes all four sides.

Shawl (doshalla), 19th century

India

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Temple banner of deep red satin embroidered in silk and gold thread with men carrying banners and on horseback. In the lower panel and in the upper panel herons and flowers. Finished with a narrow border of closely embroidered blue flowers and at the bottom with colored silk fringe. Lined with cotton.

Temple Banner, 19th century

China

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shawl, block printed cotton. Borders of large palmettes at each end and borders of small palmettes at each side. Ground printed with tiny floral sprays.

Shawl, 19th century

India

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Panel, 19th century

Greek Islands

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Rug, small black khilim, with a lozenge design in black and tan. Fringed ends.

Khilim rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Embroidered square of red satin faced with coarse white cotton material and worked with metal threads and green silk in rows of conventionalized floral motifs. Unfinished at the top and bottom and finished at the sides with selvages. Satin.

Square Piece, 18th century

Turkey

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Towel scarf of loosely woven linen embroidered with colored silks. The pattern consists of blossoms springing from foliations of various shapes symmetrically arranged, and detached floral sprays; it covers the whole of the ground with the exception of a narrow pillar-shaped space in the middle. Similar to 30.23.65 though the workmanship is not as good. Dark red and blue are the dominating colors. Two narrow borders of drawn work, and fringe at each end.

Towel scarf, 19th century

Algeria

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Rugs, with floral designs in dark blue, red, green, and yellow. The corners of the field have a stiff floral design on a field of old rose, central medallion has an all-over pattern. Three borders, one being the tortoise design. This piece is woven like a Soumak but has the designs of a Persian Kurdistan. Sides overcast. Woolen warp and weft.

Rug, 19th century

India

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Collar of silk tapestry (ko'ssu) made with a design of waves and dragons on a dark blue ground. Finished with an added border of dark blue silk and gold material and lined with stained silk damask. The finer detail of the design is painted on the material.

Collar, 1736-1795

China

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Panel of slightly conventionalized leaves and flowers embroidered on heavy cotton. Several parts of the design are outlined in machine chain stitch with red. The anhiline dyes have run and stained the material.

Panel, 20th century

Uzbekistan

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Prayer rug, Kuylah type, with blue prayer niche. The yellow spandrel above the arch is extended down on either side of the niche and beneath it. Seven borders of about the same size, but in various colors, henna, green, brown, yellow and white. The prayer field is covered with flowers, outer and inner borders carry typical Kulah border design. Both ends finished with a wide henna web, and at the top a braided warp fringe. At the bottom end, the fringe is loose. Sides finished wwith an added selvedge of blue wool. The pile is in inch and a half deep. Ghiordes knot. Wool. Cleaned and repaired by Jamgotch, summer 1941.

Prayer Rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Cover of tan linen embroidered all over with a heavy corded stitch in pattern of squares worked in red silk. The square medallion in the center is partially restored and pieces which were once part of the center have been used to patch two of the square corner medallions. Finished with borders of ribbed stitch alternating with narrow drawn thread work borders, and, with red tassels.

Cover, 19th century

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Panel, 18th century

England

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Runner fragment, 19th century

Turkey

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Sari, dull red silk. Embroidered with rows of small yellow and white flowers. Narrow border on each side and very wide border at each end of two bands of palmettes, the lower consisting of six palmettes, and the upper band of eleven palmettes. Very long.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Necklace, faience; unnumbered; necklace of 31 beads with 31 beads with greenish-blue glaze, large melon-shaped bead at center and each bead separated by small disk beads.

Necklace, 1567-1085 BCE

Ancient Egyptian

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Tent Hanging, embroidered; composed of four strips of burlap-like material in alternating colors - red, pale blue, yellow, darker blue all of which are embroidered with geometric designs. There are several long pieces of wool or hair knotted into the warp threads - to ward off the evil eye. Wool

Tent Hanging, 19th century

Turkey

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Envelope-shaped pouch of purple silk embroidered all over, and encrusted with mirrors. Ornamented at bottom and both sides with bunches of tassels.

Pouch, 19th century

India

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31.81.12-15 Camel bags, portion of. Black woolen strip embroidered in lozenge design in yellow, blue, red and green. This is probably nomad work. Wool.

Camel Bag, 19th century

Turkey

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Piece of loosely woven linen material embroidered in all-over pattern of dull red flowers with spiked blue leaves fitting around each flower. Embroiderd with silk in surface darning stitch. A border of leaves and flowers finishes the bottom. Fragment of a larger piece. Linen.

Piece, 18th century

Turkey

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sari, green silk gauze. All-over diaper pattern woven in gold thread.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Temple banner. Ivory satin ground embroidered in colored silks with groups of birds and animals against a background of flowering shrubs. Finished with an embroidered border of blue flowers and lined with pink cotton.

Temple Banner, 19th century

China

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Red satin panel with pointed top and border of dark blue. Two transverse bands and a triangular section at the top are embroidered with gilt discs and gold and silver thread in raised work. The border is divided into squares and embroidered in similar fachion. Satin.

Panel, 19th century

India

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Square, batik, printed. Leaf and vine design in dull red, dark blue and black on tan ground. Square center of dull red.

Batik Square, 19th century

Indonesia

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One of a pair of water bottles, spherical body with long straight neck. Four bands of narrow ornament on neck. Cover.

Water Bottle, one of a pair, 19th century

Egyptian

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Piece of tan linen embroidered with leafy scrolls and large red flowers. Fragment of much larger piece, Lined with unbleached muslin. Linen

Fragment, 19th century

Uzbekistan

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Black silk embroidery on linen. Evidently a practice piece showing portion of border and diamond shpaed units used for corner decoration. Pattern typical of the embroideries made in the city of Fez. Similar to 30.23.14. Red stains on linen. Linen-silk thread.

Embroidery on linen, 19th century

Morocco

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Towel-scarf of rather coarse linen with border at both ends embroidered with colored silks. The pattern consists of seven units, identical in design though not in color, of a vase and flowering plant. Both ends are bound and sides finished with a selvage. Linen, embroidered in silk.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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Cover of loosely woven linen material embroidered in floss silk with rose sprays of blue and henna. Center medallion and narrow border of similar flowers. Many restorations. Linen.

Cover, 18th century

Turkey

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Square mat of white woolen material with border embroidered in silk and cotton threads in design of small palmettes, leaves and flowers. Wool.

Square Mat, 19th century

India

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Camel bag, Afghan. Bright red field covered with all-over pattern of small hexagons. Three narrow borders all around the field, and an extra one at the top. Sides finished with a selvedge. Ends finished with a web turned under. The fringe which was originally sewed to the bottom end has worn away. Senna knot.

Camel Bag, 19th century

Turkey

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Necklace, beads (medium?), Egyptian; large bead L. 1-3/8' W. 3/4'; unnumbered Necklace of 64 patterened beads interspersed with lapis lazuli and other beads; large flattened lapis lazuli bead at the center.

Necklace, 1st-5th century

Ancient Egyptian

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Pillow Case, Shemaka or Soumak, with typical geometric designs in tan, red, blue, green and yellow. A wide border with geometrical designs on a red ground is flanked by narrow borders carrying the reciprocal sawtooth in black on a beige ground, sides overcast with colored yarns, blocked with green cotton fabric. Woolen warp and woof.

Pillow Case, 19th century

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One of four pillow cases, with floral design, three borders, one wide with the tortoise design and two narrow ones with floral and vine design. Sides overcast in red wool. One end has a fringe and one has a web.

Pillow Cover, 19th century

India

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Hearth rug, Yomud type. A white field sewn with small stars (?) ('checkerboard') contains a badly designed hexagonal medallion, which in turn contains ten octagon shapes in various colors. The hearth field is enclosed by a reciprocal sawtooth band in three shades. Three borders, the main one made up of geometric single flowers divided by three triangles laid end to end. Ends-narrow web with loose warp threads. Sides-over cast with different colored yarns. Ghiordes knot.

Hearth Rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Robe of thin white cotton material striped with white silk and ornamented with small diamond shapes worked in tinsel and finished at neck and sleeve openings with borders of the same material.

Robe, 20th century

Egypt

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Square of light tan material embroidered in brown with small geometrical motifs set closely together in rows. At one end, the seam when two pieces of the material are joined is covered with a narrow floral border worked in light green and brown. Border finishes one side.

Embroidered canvas, 19th century

Morocco

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Sari, dark blue silk covered with pattern of gold spots. Very wide border of red and gold at bottom and narrower gold border on one side.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Three strips of linen sewed together. Each strip is embroidered down the center with rose spray device with blue and henna-colored flowers. Probably part of a bed hanging. Linen.

Part of a Bed Hanging, 19th century

Turkey

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Towel-scarf of fine material with embroidered border at each end in pattern of houses, trees, and flowers made in colored silks, gold threads and tinsel. Both ends are finished with gold lace. About four inches of one side is bound with white silk thread. Cotton, silk and metal embroidery.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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Square pouch of purple cotton material fastened at top with draw strings. Embroidered and encrusted with mirrors. Ornamented at sides and bottom with bunches of tassels.

Pouch, 19th century

India

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Tent hanging, part of, embroidered at each end with ten rows of conventionalized tree-in-pot design. Red, blue, green and white on a mustard colored background. Sides turned under; one end finished wit twisted warp fringe, the other with short loose warp fringe.

Tent hanging, 19th century

Greece

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Towel of rather coarse linen with border at both ends embroidered with colored silks. Three floral sprays having three pink blosooms each form the border. Both ends are hemmed and sides finished with selvage. Linen, silk embroidery.

Towel, 19th century

Turkey

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Panel of dull red cotton material embroidered in an all-over pattern of diamond shapes in stain stich worked in white silk. At both ends are borders of diagonal bars of diamond shapes embroidered with orange silk.

Panel, 19th-20th century

India

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Black silk emboridery on linen. Evidently a practice piece showing portion of border and diamond shaped unit used for corner decoration. Pattern typical of the embroideries made in the city of Fez. Similar to 30.23.15. Brown stains on linen.

Embroidery on linen, 19th century

Morocco

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Rug, small, Khilim in pale green. Prayer design in red. The field contains various unrelated geometrical forms in various colors. Side and end borders of different widths and design. Side borders have a considerable amount of black. Finely woven.

Khilim rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Water bottle, one of a pair, spherical body with long straight neck. Four bands of narrow ornament on neck. Cover.

Water Bottle, one of a pair, 19th century

Egyptian

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Sari, fine dark green cotton material. Wide gold bands on either side and very heavy gold bands at each end.

Sari, 19th century

India

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Oblong cover of heavy red cotton material embroidered with red and blue cotton thread in an all-over diaper pattern. Finished all around with a narrow border and at both ends, with blue cotton fringe. Seam through center.

Cover, 19th century

Armenia

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Piece of dull blue canvas embroidered all over with cross stitch in dull, red, blue, yellow and black in conventional designs similar to those woven in carpets of the period. Part of a much larger piece. Linen, embroidered.

Panel, 18th century

Iran

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Woman's Tunic of yellow brocade with all-over floral pattern in different colors. Lined with blue printed cotton. The sleeves are open - being held together under the arm by black tapes - and near the cuff by metal buttons. Metal brocade.

Woman's Tunic, 19th century

Iran

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Panel of kincob cloth with pattern of chrysanthemums in gold on deep blue silk ground. Border stripe on one side.

Panel of Kincob cloth, 19th century

India

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Towel-scarf, with border at both ends embroidered with silk threads and tinsel, in pattern of houses, trees, and flowers. The same on both sides. Both ends are hemmed and both sides finished with selvage. Fine linen. Brown stains. Linen, silk embroidery.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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Saddle Bag, made from a Kurdish Ghilim. Field of triangles edged with latch hooks, there are three borders with reciprocal saw tooth and lozenges, one strip of the central portion of the bag remains and has an arrow motif in red, blue and yellow. Woolen warp and woof.

Saddle bag, 19th century

Kurdish

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Towel of loosely woven linen material embroidered with silk thread in border at each end. Composed of three spiked pink flowers surrounded by circle of leaves and vine. Both ends are hemmed and both sides finished with three narrow borders of silk thread woven into the material. Linen.

Towel, 19th century

Turkey

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Long pouch of red silk embroidered with pulchari stitch and encrusted with mirrors. Decorated on each side with tassels and fastened with long red and yellow cords terminating in silk tassels.

Pouch, 19th century

India

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Rug, large, Shirvan Khilim. Three broad stripes of blue with hexagonal motives alternating with broad triple band in green, red and dark brown. This khilim has large openwork spaces. Wool

Rug, 19th century

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Prayer rug of Kazak type., Typical prayer arch, formed by narrow, ivory bands, which extend transdversely at each side to the borders. At the bottom of the field is a second, square arch. Light red field, scattered with geometric and conventionalized flower forms. Three borders carrying variations of the reciprocal clover leaf design. Sides finished with red woolen cording. Ends worn, ends in short warp fringe. Ghiordes knot. Woolen warp and woof.

Prayer Rug, 19th century

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Square cover of tan linen material embroidered in geometrical patterns chiefly squares and octogons in henna colored silk; patched and seamed in many places. Finished all around with close buttonhole stitching.

Square cover, 19th century

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Shawl with plain red woolen center and separately woven border with palmette and tree patterns, in shades of green, red and purple. Finished with a narrow fringed border of patchwork squares and embroidery. The border is added so that on two sides the back, or wrong side of the material shows.

Shawl, 19th century

India

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Cover embroidered. A dark brown border surrounds a field made of three strips of material sewed together. The center strip is green. The other two are red. Gold and silver thread appliqued on in scrolls forming a pattern which covers all but the center green strip. Wool, embroidered.

Cover, 19th century

India

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dull green satin embroidered at sleeves, neck and hem with chain stitch and mirrors enclosed in button-hole stitch. Fastening at shoulders.

Woman's Bodice, 18th century

India

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Rug, small, Khilim; green ground with a pyramid design repeated four times in red, blue, red and grey. The side borders are white with an indented design at the edges. There are four narrow borders at the bottom. The open spaces in this rug are not very noticeable.

Khilim rug, 19th century

Turkey

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Towel-scarf, narrow, with border at each end embroidered with various colored silk floss in design of vase and flowers. Both ends are hemmed and both sides finished with selveage. Linen stained with brown. Pattern the same on both sides. Cotton, silk thread.

Towel-scarf, 19th century

Turkey

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Sari - white silk embroidered. At one end the border is made of six large palmette shapes. Flowers and two birds are embroidered on each palmette. The border at the other end of the sari is also of six palmette shapes, equally large, but decorated with naturalistic flowers only. Both borders as well as the narrow one on each side are embroidered in green silk. The field is embroidered with rows of tiny flowers in light rose silk

Sari, 19th century

India

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Rug, large, with magenta field on which are naturalistically drawn animals, and variations of the Shah Abbas design. The Shah Abbas pattern is also used in the main border stripe which has an ivory ground. Ends finished with a web doubled under and overcast. Sides have an added selvedge. Thick pile. Senna knot.

Rug, 19th-20th century

Iran

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