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Historic Textile Patterns

A collection of 18th and 19th century textiles featuring floral designs, embroidery, and intricate patterns in muted colors.

Carpet 18th century Portuguese. Carpet. Portuguese. 18th century. Embroidered rug
Carpet 18th century Portuguese. Carpet. Portuguese. 18th century. Embroidered rug
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Piece 18th century French. Piece 223328Sleeve Band 19th century China. Sleeve Band 68685Carpet 18th century Portuguese. Carpet. Portuguese. 18th century. Embroidered rugPiece late 18th century French. Piece 223729Floral print ca. 1790 J. P. Meillier & Cie. Floral print 221928Piece. Culture: French. Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches19.1 x 9.8 cm. Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Fragment late 18th century French, possibly Jouy-en-Josas. Fragment 222211Piece ca. 1720 Italian. Piece 219590Piece ca. 1750 French. Piece 224276Fragment 16th-17th century Spanish. Fragment 222638Piece Italian 19th centuryPiece late 16th century British. Piece 220677Piece 16th-17th century Italian. Piece 223410Piece mid-19th century French. Piece 227252Sampler 18th century Spanish. Sampler 228200Piece 19th century Japan. Piece 67896Piece ca. 1725-30 French. Piece 216844Piece 16th-17th century Italian. Piece 223403Valance 19th century China. Valance 70512Piece 18th century French. Piece 223325Towel 18th century. Towel 447893Border. Culture: British. Dimensions: L. 22 3/4 x W. 11 1/2 inches57.8 x 29.2 cm. Date: ca. 1815. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Piece late 18th century French. Piece 223713Piece mid-18th century Italian. Piece. Italian. mid-18th century. Silk and metal thread. Textiles-WovenNapkin. Culture: French. Dimensions: L. 42 x W. 35 1/2 inches (106.7 x 90.2 cm). Date: 1852-70. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Piece 16th century Italian or Spanish. Piece 216263Piece 1690-1700 () Spanish. Piece 216886Piece 18th century French. Piece 224373Piece 1750-60 French. Piece 220331Piece 18th century French. Piece 216646Piece 1750-70 French. Piece 220570Fragment. Culture: Italian. Dimensions: H. 26 x W. 14 inches (66.0 x 35.6 cm). Date: ca. 1600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Piece 16th-17th century Italian. Piece 223480Sleeve Band 19th century China. Sleeve Band 68751Piece 16th-17th century Italian. Piece 223184Piece 1720-25 French. Piece 216438Valance 18th century China. Valance 70082Piece 19th century Japan. Piece. Japan. 19th century. Silk / Brocaded. Textiles-WovenPiece 1760-70 French. Piece 224507Piece late 16th century Italian. Piece 216364Piece ca. 1735-1740 Italian. Piece 212990Piece ca. 1730 French. Piece 217043Textile Fragment 17th century. Textile Fragment 446831Piece 1780s French. Piece 230886Cover. Dimensions: L. 86 in. (218.4 cm)W. 60 in. (152.4 cm). Date: late 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Piece 1750-60 French. Piece 224360Piece 17th century Spanish. Piece. Spanish. 17th century. Silk. Textiles-WovenPiece late 18th century French. Piece 223642Sleeve Band 19th century China. Sleeve Band 68595Table cover. Culture: Italian. Dimensions: L. 60 x W. 30 inches (152.4 x 76.2 cm). Date: 15th century (). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Fragment. Netherlands. Date: 1650-1700. Dimensions: 19.4 x 9.8 cm (7 5/8 x 3 7/8 in.). Linen and wool, compound weave (i.e. Beiderwand or Lampas 2:1). Origin: Netherlands. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Vases of flowers and other ornament. unknown unknown Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Chinese Weaving Center: unknownPillar print textile ca. 1830 British. Pillar print textile 221938Piece early 18th century French or Italian. Piece 230912Coverlet fragment 1830-40 American. Coverlet fragment 17697Fragment. Dimensions: 19 5/16 in. high 1 15/16 in. wide (49 cm high 5 cm wide). Date: 3rd-4th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Border 16th-17th century German or Slovak. Border 216411Piece 1750-60 French. Piece 220446Rug late 18th century Romanian. Rug 222333Piece. Culture: Italian. Dimensions: L. 4 1/2 x W. 4 inches (11.4 x 10.2 cm). Date: 16th-17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Piece ca. 1750 French. Piece 223240Sampler 19th century German. Sampler 228422Piece 18th century French. Piece 223336Piece 1775-90 French. Piece 220089Chasuble Made 1801-1900 Russia. Red and gold silver velvet and metal brocade; cut voided cloth velvet; coat with short sleeves open on sides .Piece ca. 1725-30 French. Piece 226447Handkerchief Made 1601-1650 Italy. Linen, plain weave; edged with needle lace worked on a plain weave; cut and drawn work grid; Reticella pattern and bobbin straight lace points .Bliżej Kultury unknownPiece 1750-60 French. Piece 220267Cover 16th-17th century Italian or German. Cover 21955910/21/1906. Printed silk pillow, Bone color background. Three Metallic Gallons Scratch the Bottom of the Pillow.Textile Fragment 3rd-4th century. Textile Fragment 444273Piece ca. 1750 French. Piece 224365Border Made 1810-1820 France. Linen, bobbin straight lace .Fragment Made 1775-1800 France. Silk, brocaded .Bedcover late 18th-early 19th century China. Bedcover 69552Cope 1720-30 Italian. Cope 228817Handkerchief Made 1850-1875 France. Linen, plain weave; cut work embroidered with linen in needle lace fillings; and embroidered with cotton in back, buttonhole, padded overcast, padded satin, and trammed ladder hem stitches; laid work and couching; edged with cotton and linen, Leavers machine lace .Embroidery sample for a mans suit or waistcoat ca. 1785-1815 French. Embroidery sample for a mans suit or waistcoat 224042Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 67444Fragment (Border). Iran (Persia, Isfahan). Date: 1601-1700. Dimensions: 5.6 x 24 cm (2 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.). Brocaded compound cloth. Origin: Iran. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Back of a chasuble 15th-16th century Italian, possibly Florence. Back of a chasuble 222611Textile Fragment 4th-5th century. Textile Fragment 444311Curtain 17th century probably Greek Islands, Southern Cyclades, Pholegandros. Curtain 222331Band. Dimensions: H. 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm)W. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm). Date: 4th-5th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Sleeve Band 19th century China. Sleeve Band 68635Piece ca. 1725 French. Piece 217007Fragment Made 1750-1800 France. Silk, brocaded plain compound cloth .Kerchief 1860s British. Kerchief. British. 1860s. Silk. Textiles-PrintedSample ca. 1830 French, Mulhausen. Sample 219982Table napkin ca. 1805 French. Table napkin 228941Flounce late 17th century Flemish, Brussels. Flounce 226435Albumin paper photograph by Eugen Albert testing a new red-sensitive orthochromatic emulsion around 1882-1888, showing test patterns and photographic experiment.Hydrangeas 19th century Japan. Hydrangeas 70693Tiles 17th century Dutch. Tiles 196271Piece 18th century French. Piece 224257Quilt, Rose of Sharon pattern. Culture: American. Dimensions: 83 3/4 x 84 5/16 in. (212.7 x 214.2 cm). Date: ca. 1860.The top of the quilt is of a white cotton fabric printed with a thin red stripe. The appliquéd flowers are of pink and green cotton. The edge binding is of green plaid cotton. White cotton fabric with a small dark red figure is used for the backing. There are large-scale quilted flower and feather forms in some areas, as well as an overall pattern of diagonal parallel lines. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Cope 17th century Italian. Cope 227784Flounce late 18th-early 19th century Spanish. Flounce 226434Piece 18th century French. Piece 223728