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A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace.

Fragment (Border), 1701/25

A work made of linen, needle lace with woven tape.

Border, 1675/1725(imitation of 17th century Venetian needle lace)

A work made of silk, plain gauze weave; embroidered with silk in darning stitches (lacis).

Border, 1601/25

A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace.

Fragment (Border), 1601/50

A work made of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work embroidered in double faggot, double hem, overcast and padded overcast stitches; needle lace inserts (of buttonhole, darned and overcast bars decorated with buttonhole collar and bullion picots); edged with needle lace points (of six-element plait, buttonhole, double buttonhole, and overcast bars).

Border (From a Cover), 1525/1600 (lower edge: c. 1600)

A work made of linen, macramé.

Border, 1575/1625

A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "mechlin" with a mechlin mesh ground.

Border, 1750s

A work made of linen, bobbin part lace.

Insertion, 1725/1775

A work made of cotton and silk, plain weave with patterning wefts.

Trousers (Pantalones), 1900/50

Maya

A work made of silk, silver-gilt-strips wound around silk fiber cores, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts, supplementary binding warps tying some self-patterning ground wefts in plain interlacings and self-patterned by areas of 1:3 twill interlacings.

Panel, 1730s

A work made of cotton and silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, bands of plain weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts, weft-faced, warp ribbed plain weave, and slit tapestry weave; ends of wool, plain weave; fulled; with hammered white metal fitting and fringe of chain and cut, hammered end pieces.

Ceremonial Waist Sashes (ikak pinggang), 19th century

Minangkabau

A work made of cotton.

Sample (Furnishing Fabric), 1951

Scalamandré

A work made of white ground, floral design in colors; silver galloon and fringe.

Cope, 18th century

A work made of silk and wild silk, stripes of warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with self-patterning ground weft floats and stripes of plain weave self-patterned by two-color complementary ground weft floats; woven on loom with jacquard attachment.

Fragment, Late 19th century (reproduction of 1760s pattern)

A work made of wood.

Niddy Noddy

A work made of silk and cotton, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in a twill interlacing (lampas).

Border or Ribbon, 1860s

A work made of linen, raised needle lace, based on italian, venetian lace prototype.

Border, 1650/1700

A work made of linen, needle lace worked on a laid and plaited thread grid, reticello pattern.

Insertion (For a Cover), 1601/25

A work.

Border, 17th century

A work made of silk, plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats, areas of twill weave, and areas of satin weave; woven on loom with jacquard attachment.

Panel, 1830/40

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