EditorialTablecloth, Medium: silk, cotton Technique: embroidery and cutwork on plain weave, Round tablecloth has embroidery and cutwork in an elaborate design of irises and spider webs with spiders. Cutwork areas have spoked grey threads worked with thinner gre...
EditorialPlate 44 from Ne?w Grotte?ken Buch (New Book of Grotesques), Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618, Engraving on laid paper, Ornamental vase of auricular, cartilage-like form and containing plants terminating in grotesque heads and intertwined by sp...
EditorialFabric fragment in tapestry, Black-colored fabric fragment with three woven webs. The widest course at the top is divided by solid stripes in yellow, red and green and has a central switching pattern in red on yellow. In the bands above and under a yel...
EditorialHousecoat Sit's dressing gown, painted with multicolored prunus blossoms, pine branches with fan-shaped ends and a border with winding flower and leaf vines lined with yellow-white-red striped silk, Sitting's robe, pine branches with fan-shaped ends an...
EditorialFragment of multicolored silk with on a white background (discolored brown?) A pattern of curlwork and stylized leaf motifs with flowers and flower sprays in and on the lanes, Fragment of multicolored silk fabric with on a white background (brown disco...
EditorialSilk tissue fragment, Silk tissue fragment. The fragment has a pattern of a scalloped web in which white dots flanked by two webs with a dot interspersed with an oblique diamond shape. The pattern is partly brown and partly green., Zijdeweverij Heshuyz...
EditorialPaper wallpaper with pattern of webs in which wavy tendril and winch shapes, Paper wallpaper with pattern in five colors of alternating narrow and broad webs, in which alternately a wavy tendril and staggered winch shapes on beige / brown ground. Block...
EditorialBag in a flat, rectangular design, of cream-colored cotton macram? with a cream-colored satin lining, the lower half of which is cream-colored cotton macram?, in a pattern of diagonal webs is knotted. A macram? handle on both sides that is knotted so t...
EditorialRug made of silk, composed of three webs that are made up of twenty fragments, made up of three webs that are made up of twenty fragments. The rug is trimmed with gold threaded band and is lined with yellow silk in plain weave. Patterned dress: horizon...
EditorialFragment striped silk fabric, Fragment striped silk fabric. Part of the fragment has a green ground on which scaled webs alternately filled with white dots and with a white dot with an oblique diamond shape. The other part has the same pattern but the ...
EditorialPtychozoon homalocephala, Print, Ptychozoon is a genus of arboreal geckos, endemic to Southeast Asia, known commonly as flying geckos, gliding geckos, or parachute geckos. They are lizards in the family Gekkonidae. The Ptychozoon's biogeographic histor...
EditorialNephila, Print, The golden silk orb-weavers (Nephila) are a genus of araneomorph spiders noted for the impressive webs they weave. Nephila consists of numerous species found in warmer regions around the world. They are also commonly called golden orb-w...
EditorialSteatoda, Print, The spider genus Steatoda, in the family Theridiidae, includes about 120 recognized species, distributed around the world (including many cosmopolitan species which are found among human populations worldwide). One common name is cupbo...
EditorialAgelena, Print, Agelena is a genus of agelenid spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805. Sometimes referred to as Eurasian grass spiders, they trap their prey by weaving entangling non-sticky funnel webs. They are limited to the O...
EditorialSpiders. Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium. Amsterdam, 1705. Spiders in their webs, with eggs. Image taken from Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium. Originally published/produced in Amsterdam, 1705. . Source: 649.c.26, 74 plate 18.
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