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fragment
1740-1770
Complex weave dress fabric with brocading. The design, which is weft faced comprises of stylized roses with a background of lace ribbon. The supplementary weft fibres of the pattern do not extend the ...
fragment
before 1700
The pattern in silver and gold on a green background consists of stylized flowers of several different kinds. The weave is plain with both warp and weft of green silk. The brocaded flower motifs c...
furniture cover
late 18th century
This item is symmetrically assembled from two panels of silk zhicheng, a traditional weft patterned fabric in which the patterning wefts do not run the full width of the fabric but instead have been i...
sampler
Hollis, Mary
1740
Sampler made by Mary Hollis, 1740. This is probably stitched by a child, as was originally part of a collection of school children's work. The sampler is worked in horizontal bands of alphabet, numb...