EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: warp and weft resist (ikat) on handwoven plain weave, Alternating warp stripes of light blue and white intersect with blue and white weft stripes to form a large scale plaid pattern with both solid color and ikat stri...
EditorialSquare, Medium: linen Technique: grid of withdrawn element work with needle lace, reticella style, and edge of bobbin lace, Square with bobbin lace edging has cross-shapes filled with needle lace fillings. These are inside a fine diamond lattice with s...
EditorialCeiling paper, Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA, Machine-printed paper, Trellis or grid pattern containing a stylized square floral motif in the center of each grid, and a four-petaled floral motif where the lines intersect. Lighter geometri...
EditorialCeiling paper, York Card & Paper Co., 1891, Machine-printed paper, Trellis or grid pattern with a folaite quatrefoil motif in the center of each grid, and a four-petaled flower in a square where the lines would intersect. Printed in pink, green, and gr...
EditorialA three-pound piece of the moon cut from a meteorite found in the Sahara is displayed in New York on March 6, 2020. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialMaria van Reigersberg (1589-1653), Wife of Hugo de Groot, wife of Hugo de Groot, Bust of Maria van Reigersberg (1589-1653), biscuit, on glazed column with cannelures in green and gold, standing on round profiled plinth, decorated with piping, intersect...
EditorialFragment green with yellow silk lampshade, Fragment silk fabric. The symmetrical pattern has vertical garlands with large poppy flowers that intersect in a flower, surrounded entirely on the left and right by volute ornaments of flowered bands., anonym...