EditorialSkirt panel, Medium: cotton; gold leaf on wax or gum base Technique: mordant painted and dyed with resist (chintz) on tabby weave, Wedge-shaped piece of fine firm cotton cloth with medium-scale design of stylized flower heads on top of grace-fully curv...
EditorialSidewall, linen, paint, Horizontal section of coarse natural linen painted on one side with fragmentary medium- scale symmetrical design of bunch of three carnations (?) alternating with single large flower-head; smaller floral sprigs in interstices. R...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: damasse (5-harness satin plus 1\4 twill), Chasuble piece with medium-scale, close set diagonal repeat of stylized floral sprays. Alternate rows have small birds perched on flowers. One selvage continuous with field and...
EditorialEmbossed wool, Medium: wool Technique: moire and glazed plain weave, Bright golden yellow woolen cloth, moire and glazed on one side with medium scale watered effect., ca. 1780, Embossed wool.
EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: printed on plain weave, Reproduction of a medium-scale design of continuous twining vines and leaves in rust, biege and black, on beige ground. Peppering of black dots on the biege ground outlines the pattern. Two pla...
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask, Medium-scale classical urn and flowers in roughly ogival framework formed by stylized leaf sprays at angles and crowns at tangent points. Double cord selvages., Italy or Spain, late 16thearly 17t...
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk Technique: satin weave (?), Medium scale close-set repeat of maple leaves with drooping flowers in dark blue satin and plain weave on rust ribbed ground. Dark blue warps and rust wefts., France or USA, 189099, woven textiles, Textile.
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask, Blue damask with a medium-scale design of a symmetrical floral spray in a continuous angular ogival framework of decorated bands clasped by two dotted rings at tangent points. Two broad coarse s...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask, Reddish-tan damask with a symmetrical medium-scale repeat of a vase of flowers in a ogival foliage frame. Tangents of ogives clasped by crowns., Italy or Spain, 16th century, woven textiles, Fra...
EditorialBed cover, Medium: linen, wool Technique: plain weave with supplementary warp, Vertical panel with medium-scale diagonal repeat giving allover effect of large symmetrical urns with addorsed birds on either side of vase, confronted birds on either side ...
EditorialThe Strawberry Thief, Medium: cotton Technique: resist printed and block printed on plain weave, Medium scale symmetrical design with woodland flowers and strawberries with paired birds. In blue, green, yellow, orange, red and pink on a dark blue groun...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask, Red damask showing part of a vertical symmetrical repeat in medium scale with stylized central tulip, rose, and pomegranate flora and flanked by two birds., Italy, 17th century, woven textiles, ...
EditorialBand, Medium: wool, silk, cotton, linen, silver foil on silk core Technique: slit tapestry, Rectangular piece for a cap with a double row of close-set medium scale floriated crosses in green, yellow, blue, tan and black silks with alternating silver or...
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk Technique: plain compound weave, Medium-scale symmetrical stylized floral repeats in horizontal rows. Each framing hexagonal field formed by horizontal zigzag band between each row of flowers., France, late 17thmid-18th century, w...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: ikat velvet, Scaled and blurred medium-scale geometric design in crimson, gold, rust, white, and green on ground in shades of deep blue. Two crimson twill selvedges with paired white pencil stripes., Afghanistan, befor...
EditorialSnakehead, Medium: cotton Technique: printed on plain weave, Symmetrical medium-scale design of large tangent tear shapes and arabesques formed by twining stems and filled with leaves adn flowers, in pind, yellow, red, gray-green and lavender on black ...
EditorialSeat covers, Medium: cotton, silk Technique: chain stitch embroidery on fancy twill weave, Matching chair seat covers of fine undyed fancy cloth with tiny allover diamond diaper pattern. Hand seamed down the center and embroidered in fine multicolored ...
EditorialIndian Diaper, Medium: cotton Technique: printed, Medium-scale all-over symmetrical design of trellis framework in tans, each diamond containing a stylized flower and leaf pattern in tans and dark blue. Plain wide unprinted selvedge., England, designed...
EditorialTextile, Medium: hemp Technique: tied resist patterning in warp and weft (double ikat) on plain weave, Medium-scale repeat of curling dragon in clouds alternating with prancing animal in diamond frame superimposed on a curving branch with flowers. Scat...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask, Medium-scale design of delicate symmetrical bouquets, each diamond shaped and closely placed so that a trellis shape is created by the negative space of the pattern. Two salmon and yellow stripe...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: 5-harness satin damask, Narrow green damask in a medium-scale pattern of rising ogives fitted together. All interspaces are filled with a diaper pattern and scrolling leaves. One selvage present., Italy, 17th century, ...