EditorialFurisode, 18th century, late Edo period (1789?1868), Japan, Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound on reverse face by secondary binding warps in plain interlacing, lined in red silk crepe (...
EditorialFragment, Medium: linen Technique: sprang, Pattern of upright bars with projecting diagonals that meet to form lozenge shapes worked in twisted threads. The mesh is hexagonal and has two sizes., Slovakia, 18th century, non-woven textiles, Fragment.
EditorialTapa cloth, Medium: paper mulberry bark Technique: beaten, printed and painted, Tapa cloth printed in design of brown daisies on white circles on brown ground., Samoa, 18001850, non-woven textiles, Tapa cloth.
EditorialFragment, Medium: linen Technique: sprang, Pattern of upright bars with projecting diagonals that meet to form lozenge shapes worked in twisted threads. The mesh is hexagonal and has two sizes., Slovakia, 18th century, non-woven textiles, Fragment.
EditorialTapa cloth, Medium: bark Technique: beaten, Oblong panel of tapa cloth with a geometric design painted in two shades of brown. Two long borders have squares enclosing trefoils., Fiji, 19th century, non-woven textiles, Tapa cloth.
EditorialOrnaments, Medium: silk Technique: knotting (macram?), Cord in green, brown, white and blue, knotted into an oval shaped ornament, ending in tassel with fringed ends. All four ornaments are alike, except that two have long tassels and two short tassels...
EditorialTapa cloth, Medium: bark Technique: painted, Rectangle of two thicknesses, printed in dark brown in design of striated diagonals within tall rectangles. Dark triangles of solid shiny pigment may be painted. Lozenge pattern border at one end., Samoa?, P...
EditorialBark cloth, Medium: Broussonetia bark Technique: beaten bark fiber, rubbed and hand painted Label: beaten and rubbed Broussonetia bark, hand-painted, Large panel of tapa cloth. Thick white fabric made from beaten bark, painted in rust and brown in desi...
EditorialTapa cloth, Medium: bark (bronssetia) Technique: printed, Two thicknesses of bark cloth, white, printed in grey and yellow in lozenge and zigzag pattern., Pacific Islands, 19th century, non-woven textiles, Tapa cloth.
EditorialFabric fragment with tabula, Natural-colored linen fabric fragment with sewn-on tabula of dark blue wool with a diamond pattern arranged in flying wire technology with a geometric layout. In the middle a small rectangle with recurring pendulum motif. A...
EditorialTissue fragment in tapestries, Natural colored linen fabric with a broad horizontal band in dark blue wool on top with natural dotted edges on both sides. At the bottom a fringe border, a narrow blue woven horizontal line and after a strip of non-woven...
EditorialFurisode, 18th century, late Edo period (1789?1868), Japan, Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound on reverse face by secondary binding warps in plain interlacing, lined in red silk crepe (...
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