EditorialBedcover, Medium: silk, gilded paper on silk core, metallic thread Technique: embroidered on satin weave, Large bedcover of white satin embroidered in allover floral pattern in brilliant colored silks and metallic thread. Design, symmetrically arranged...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk, metal Technique: embroidered on plain weave foundation, Mughal-type embroidery fragment with alternating rows of red-orange flowerheads and green and metal thread herringbone stripes., India, 18th19th century, embroidery & stitc...
EditorialFrieze, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York, Machine-printed paper, A repetitive design of alternating elaborately wreathed forms in the shape of hand mirrors centering a gold papyrus plant and similar gold fl...
EditorialFrieze, W.H. Mairs & Co., 1855, Machine-printed paper, Repeating design of interconnected geometric floral motifs above a border of complementary geometric flowerheads. Printed in shades of blue and green on a blue ground with an overlay of a pattern o...
EditorialBedcover, Medium: silk, gilded paper on silk core, metallic thread Technique: embroidered on satin weave, Large bedcover of white satin embroidered in allover floral pattern in brilliant colored silks and metallic thread. Design, symmetrically arranged...
EditorialFragments, Medium: natural linen Technique: lace of early premade tape with needle fillings, Fragments of a scalloped border formed by two alternating flowerheads. In spaces below flowers are two smaller flowerheads in an alternate arrangement., Italy,...
EditorialTiraz, Medium: mulham Technique: painted on plain weave, Section of undyed mulham with right-hand part of decorated horizontal inscription band sketchily drawn on it: crude Kufic characters in black on blue guard bands outlined in black. Row of birds f...
EditorialChalice cover, Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: satin stitch embroidery, Faded purple ribbed silk ground embroidered in colored silk and metallic thread. Central design shows a cruciform composed of conventionalized flowerheads in profile and S...
EditorialKerchief, Medium: glazed cotton Technique: printed, Kerchief with a Chinoiserie border design printed in black on a red ground with yellow flowerheads. Mustard yellow central field with small areas and foliage patterns reserved in white. Design in hori...
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk Technique: satin weave with supplementary weft, Off-white satin with large multicolored flowerheads and curving stems that show Chinoiserie influence., Lyon, France, 17501800, woven textiles, Textile.
EditorialTable round, Medium: cotton Technique: stenciled and embroidered on plain weave, crocheted border, Off-white table round has a discontinuous painted blue border containing a zigzag pattern in reserve and a black embroidered outline. Bottom edge has a l...
EditorialPanel, Medium: linen, silk, glass beads Technique: embroidered beaded, Beaded panel with three tabs on top has an elaborate design of two cornucopias, large multicolored blossoms and birds. Some flowerheads have appliqued fabric forming the petals., Eu...
EditorialVeil, Medium: silk Technique: needlework on net, Wide veil of black blonde in a pattern of large floral clusters at one end. Bordered with scalloped flowerheads in two sizes. Offset diagonal sprigs cover the field., Spain or France, late 19th century, ...
EditorialCut-out, Lockwood de Forest, American, 18501932, Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, de Forest ownership 18811908, Pierced and cut-out sheet copper foil, the rectangular sheet of thin copper with pointed borders on the side, pier...
EditorialTextile, Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 18751941, Medium: cotton Technique: printed on plain weave with doubled warps, Large-scale design of exotic flowers with curving stems and leaves, large flowerheads suggesting tree-peonies and lotus in pink, ...
EditorialBorder, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, Mechlin style, Straight border of Mechlin lace with a design of small square ornaments sprinkled over field has border of detached motifs of flower and leaves above row of flowerheads., Belgium, early 19th ...
EditorialBorder, Medium: linen Technique: 17th century needle lace (punto in aria), Fragment of a border with flowerheads, probably carnations, supported by scrolling forms., Italy, 15751699, lace, Border.
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: woven, Scrolling vine and large flowerheads on a pink-orange ground., Japan, 17th18th century, woven textiles, Fragment.
EditorialCollar, Medium: cotton Technique: needlework on net, Round net collar with an scalloped border edged with triangular tabs. Leafy vine runs along three sides with oval groups of flowerheads in the interstices., Scotland, ca. 1840, embroidery & stitching...