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Historical Textiles and Fabrics

An assortment of antique textiles from different cultures, showcasing intricate designs and historical craftsmanship.

Fragment, Medium: silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered on satin weave, Fragment showing an urn on a bracket under a canopy surrounded by flowers and leaves with ribbons., Europe, early 18th century, embroidery & stitching, Fragment
Fragment, Medium: silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered on satin weave, Fragment showing an urn on a bracket under a canopy surrounded by flowers and leaves with ribbons., Europe, early 18th century, embroidery & stitching, Fragment
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Anonymous, 1830. Silk and wool with green background and patterns of red and white cashmere flowers and palms. Palais Galliera, fashion museum of the city of Paris.Juwemendoos van Koningin Anna Van Oostenrijk; Jewelry box of the Queen Anne of Austria Woman of Louis XIII; National Museum of the Louvre Gallery of Apollo. .Sample (France)Fragment, Medium: silk Technique: cut supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a plain weave foundation, Fragment in a checkerboard pattern of red and faded green squares., Spain, 10th-11th century, woven textiles, FragmentFragment with Abstracted Leaves, 500s. Egypt, Byzantine period, 6th century. Tabby weave with inwoven tapestry ornament, linen and wool; overall: 22.3 x 10.2 cm (8 3/4 x 4 in.).Woman ,. Messenger CollectionAlbum. unknown, authorPurse; silk, metalOrphrey Band Fragment (Germany); silk, linen, metallicBox with Six Jade Tablets, 1778. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1735-1795). Jade; overall: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.); box: 11.2 x 15 cm (4 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.).Woman's Majia (Semiformal or Informal Domestic Vest) Made 1870-1890 China. Silk, 7 1 satin damask weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in satin, single satin, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; ribbon silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; facings silk, warp-float faced 7 1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in satin and single satin stitches; laid work and couching; corner cut outs edged with silk, warp-float faced 7 1 satin weave under laid with silk, warp-float faced 3 1 twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave; trim and closures silk, warp-float faced 7 1 satin weave; lined with silk, 3 1, 1 1, 3 1, 1 1... twill weave; metal buttons . ManchuWoman ,. Messenger CollectionTrim, small fringe, 18th-19th century, 38 1/2 x 1/2 in. (97.79 x 1.27 cm), Passementerie, 18th-19th centuryUuk kap Ilgich, late 19th-early 20th century, 22 x 13 1/2 in. (55.88 x 34.29 cm), Silk, wool, cotton; slanted buttonhole stitch, chain stitch, Uzbekistan, 19th-20th centuryBadge, 1700 - 1800 Rosette with the colors from outside to inside: white - red - white - blue - white. Netherlands linen (material)Tile, orange, brown, green, and blue on white, flowerpot in square, corner pattern palmet, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Rotterdam Hillegersberg-Schiebroek Hillegersberg Zuid Clay road Bellevue This tile comes from the house Bellevue that stood on the Kleiweg.. Pillow leaf of a magistratow cushion of carpet tissue with the crowned Dutch weapon with the climbing lion presented in the Dutch garden.Sampler (USA); Embroidered by Mary Ann Walton (American); silk embroidery on linen foundationBeaded Bag, 19th century. America, 19th century. average: 13.4 x 16.5 cm (5 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.).Greek Ornament and Etruscan OrnamentA Plains Beaded Hide Double Saddle Bag Native American Art Fragment Of Funerary Pall (Near East); silkFringe French mid-18th centuryChair Back ca. 1825 American. Chair Back. American. ca. 1825. Embroidered silk, canvasTextile Fragment 5th century Coptic. Textile Fragment. Coptic. 5th century. Linen, wool. Made in Byzantine Egypt. Textiles-WovenSampler 19th century British. Sampler. British. 19th century. Silk on wool canvas. Textiles-EmbroideredBag; silkOne Armchair.