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Historic Textiles

Fragments of ancient textiles from Italy, Egypt, and Spain, showcasing intricate patterns and textures, with muted tones reflecting historical craftsmanship.

Piece 16th century Italian. Piece 224097
Piece 16th century Italian. Piece 224097
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Piece 15th century Italian. Piece 227127Textile Fragment 3rd-4th century. Textile Fragment. 3rd-4th century. Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave. Country of Origin Egypt. TextilesPiece 16th century Italian. Piece 224097Pieces mid-16th century Spanish or Italian. Pieces 219653Piece ca. 1730 French. Piece 217311Piece 19th century Japan. Piece. Japan. 19th century. Silk, metallic thread. Textiles-WovenTextile Sample from Sample Book 19th century Japan. Textile Sample from Sample Book 68220Fragment. Europe. Date: 1601-1700. Dimensions: 44.7 × 25.3 cm (17 5/8 × 10 in.). Linen and wool, plain weave; tied and free double cloth. Origin: Europe. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Piece mid-17th century Italian. Piece 229109Galloon late 18th-early 19th century European. Galloon 225116Fragment (Border) Made 1601-1700 Iran. Brocaded compound cloth .Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 67849Trimming, Medium: silk Technique: woven, Yellow trimming fragment with a design of a vine ornament alternating with a motif of leaves. Border in a lozenge pattern at either edge., France, ca. 1820, trimmings, TrimmingBorder. Italy. Date: 1601-1700. Dimensions: 8.5 x 31.4 cm (3 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.). Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in back, hem, satin, and split stitches; edged with silk floss in buttonhole and detached buttonhole stitches. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Piece 16th century Spanish. Piece 216203Fragment 16th century Italian. Fragment 230522Textile Fragment 4th-5th century. Textile Fragment 445677Rug early 18th century China. Rug 68438Fragment 17th century Italian. Fragment 218859Fragment silk velvet with a pattern in violet of palmets and leaves to symmetrical tendrils..fragment Silk Velvet with a Pattern in Violet or Palmets and Leaves on Symmetrical Tendrils on Yellow Soil. Italy, 16th century.Fragment Made 1625-1650 Spain. Yellow rep ground; floral pattern of cut velvet outlined with uncut velvet, faded violet .Cover early 17th century Italian or German. Cover 460785Fragment; linenFragment. Egypt. Date: 1301-1500. Dimensions: 20.8 × 38.2 cm (8 1/4 × 15 in.)Weft repeat: 14.2 cm (5 5/8 in.). Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in plain interlacings. Origin: Egypt. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Islamic.Fragment; silkPiece 16th-17th century Italian. Piece 223424Fragment Made 1700-1725 Japan. Damask; silk .Textile Fragment 17th century. Textile Fragment 445258Fragment Made 1750-1800 France. Silk, linen, and cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet .Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 67706Sampler 1790 Spanish. Sampler 219515Fragment (Japan)Back of Court Robe late 18th century China. Back of Court Robe 69917Textile Fragment 5th-6th century. Textile Fragment 443423Piece 17th century Japan. Piece 71307Fragment Made 1601-1625 Spain. Satin damask weaving .Floral print ca. 1778 French, Jouy-en-Josas. Floral print 221838Textile Fragment 16th century. Textile Fragment 454449Floral garland with hunting trophies. unknown c. 1690 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'6" x W 5'10" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: unknown Trophies include bow, quivers spears & trumpets Border adapted as a valance. French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 23968Piece. Culture: Italian. Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (16.5 x 9.5 cm). Date: early 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Fragment 16th century Southern German. Fragment 220072Carpet 18th century. Carpet 447575Textile Fragment 3rd-4th century. Textile Fragment 443272Sheath with a young man at the top. There is a young man with a sword and a stick on a candelalaber of vases and leaf rights.Fragment late 16th century Italian. Fragment 213466Table Runner Made 1875-1900 Russia. .Fragment 17th century German. Fragment 215613Sutra Cover Made 1590-1599 China. Silk and cotton, warp-float faced 3 1 broken twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts some bound in weft-float faced 1 3 'S' twill .Fragment of a Shoulder Band 5th century. Fragment of a Shoulder Band 443814Fragment of a Border. France. Date: 1855-1875. Dimensions: 64.6 × 14.1 cm (25 3/8 × 5 5/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; with supplementary patterning warps forming cut pile (velvet); and self-patterning wefts which tie with supplemenatry binding warps in twill weave in pattern areas; alternating bands of velvet and patterned design. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 67785Piece 18th century French. Piece 224341Fragment Made 1701-1800 France. Silk, cut, uncut, voided velvet against satin weave foundation .Sampler 1782 Dutch. Sampler 228145Piece 18th century China. Piece 71488Piece 18th century French. Piece 230917Fragment 18th century Italian. Fragment 230391Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 66999Sleeve Band 19th century China. Sleeve Band 68625Chasuble Italian 1720-30Strip 17th-18th century Flemish or Italian. Strip 217735Fragment of Shoulder Band 3rd-4th century. Fragment of Shoulder Band 443966Embroidered darning sampler. Culture: Dutch. Dimensions: H. 11 x W. 11 inches (27.9 x 27.9 cm). Date: 1762. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Border. Date/Period: Late 17th-early 18th century. Border. Medium: linen. Technique: needle lace. Author: UNKNOWN.Cover 17th century Italian. Cover 222552Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece. Japan. 18th-19th century. Silk. Edo period (1615-1868). Textiles-WovenSquare From Hanging (Egypt); warp; s-spun linen. wefts; z-spun linen, z-spun woolFour Pieces for Obi () 19th century Japan. Four Pieces for Obi () 70929Border 17th century German. Border 216504Piece 16th century possibly Italian. Piece 222568Kain Panjang (long Sarong) (Indonesia); cottonSutra Cover 17th century China. Sutra Cover 69829Table cover. Culture: Italian. Dimensions: L. 58 x W. 35 inches (147.3 x 88.9 cm). Date: 15th century (). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Roundel. Dimensions: H. 17 1/4 in. (43.8 cm)W. 15 3/4 in. (40 cm). Date: 3rd-4th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Fragment, Medium: silk Technique: cut voided supplementary warp pile in a satin foundation (velvet), Small-patterned or 'miniature' velvet with a light green ground formed by floats of a secondary weft thread. Over this, cut pile in beige with background pattern of narrow vertical stripes alternating with fine diagonal stripes. Border design in red and green pile of rose and minute floral intertwining serpentines., France, 1750-1800, woven textiles, FragmentPiece 18th century Japan. Piece. Japan. 18th century. Silk / Compound weave. Edo period (1615-1868). Textiles-WovenGallon; End of the 18th century (1791-00-00-1800-00-00);Fragment, Medium: cotton Technique: resist-printed on plain weave, Fragment of border in fine cotton plain cloth. Design in white on dark blue ground, arranged in horizontal bands. Vine motif, and geometric ornament formed by blocks of small white squares with blue centers., India, 14th-15th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, FragmentBib fragment, Medium: linen Technique: grid of laid cord with needle lace, reticella style, Bib-type fragment with four radiating circles within a grid format., Italy, 16th-17th century, lace, Bib fragmentTextile Fragment 3rd-4th century. Textile Fragment 445764Sampler. Culture: Dutch. Dimensions: H. 11 1/2 x W. 8 3/4 inches (29.2 x 22.2 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Piece 18th century German, Saxony. Piece 214719Chasuble 17th century Italian. Chasuble 226561Fragment, Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card; Made for Cooper Union Museum; Belgium; linenPiece first half 18th century China for Western market. Piece 70658Sampler 19th century. Sampler 451451Lazio Roma Velletri Museo Capitolare5. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Breviaries (two, 14-15th century); "The Passion" on vellum (French school, late 13th century); reliquaries. Post-medieval: Paintings, frescoes, vestments, sculpture, metalwork, panel painting Object Notes: Bibliographic material housed in Center library. Hutzel photo campaign dates: one undated, another November 9, 1985. It is likely that notes for the Pinacoteca Cattedrale (no separate Hutzel entry) describe items under this heading. TCI seems to indicate that the Museo Capitolare is adjacent to the cathedral. As well, some prints are missing; the initial Hutzel entry indicates that there are 422 prints. At this count, I can find 142. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, incluTextile Fragment 3rd-4th century. Textile Fragment 443295Fragment. Dimensions: 10 5/8 in. high 9 13/16 in. wide (27 cm high 25 cm wide). Date: 3rd-4th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Skirt for a Married Woman, 20th century, Djege Coulibaly, Malian, born before 1940, 57 x 36 1/4in. (144.8 x 92.1cm), Cotton; strip-woven mudcloth (bogolanfini); dyed, Mali, 20th centuryCarpet fragment, Medium: wool Technique: double cloth, Floral and lozenge design in red, green and blue., USA, 19th century, woven textiles, Carpet fragmentCover Made 1701-1900 Spain. .Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 66969Textile Fragment 3rd-4th century. Textile Fragment 444274Hanging late 16th century Spanish. Hanging. Spanish. late 16th century. Wool, linen. Textiles-EmbroideredPiece 1745-50 French. Piece 224392Beatrice DeKalb, Trailboard, c 1939 TrailboardPiece 1750-60 French. Piece 217208Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 67755Band with a triangle motif ..