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shawl
Textile

shawl

early 19th Century

Twill woven shawl with large patterned borders (palia) at each end comprising of seven elongated buta shapes on a cream ground, outlined in black with pale blue and pink geometric shapes and in filled...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

mid 19th-late 19th Century

Twill/tapestry woven shawl with a deep patterned border (phala) across each end. Each border is composed of seven elongated buteh shapes, each woven with the same design but varying colour schemes. Th...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

1870-1880

Large rectangular shawl, jacquard woven, in shades of red, green, orange, purple, pale and dark green, burgundy and cream woollen threads. The all over design is twill woven with two threads for every...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

mid 19th Century

Long rectangular shawl jacquard woven in shades of red, green, lilac, pale blue, cream and burgundy. An all over design stylised floral design radiates toward a plain cream centre. Wool warp and cotto...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

mid 19th Century

Large shawl, jacquard woven, in shades of green, red, pink, mid blue, black and old gold coloured wool. The all over design forms a mirror image on each side of the shawl if folded in half. The centre...

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Sobranīe puteshestvīĭ k tataram i drugim voztochnym narodam v xiii, xiv, i xv stol︠i︡etī︠i︡akh

︠I︡Azykov, Dmitriĭ Ivanovich (1773-1845); Ascelin, Niccolo; Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari (1252)

1825

No more published. Cf. N.I. Berezin. Russkī︠i︡a knizhny︠i︡a r︠i︡edkosti, 1902, No. 570. Latin and Russian.

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the border of a shawl. Patterning depicts left facing butehs on a red ground with floral patterning within and around them. Along the outside edge is a narrow border with floral patterni...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the border of a shawl. Patterning depicts left facing butehs on a red ground with floral patterning within and around them. Along the outside edge is a narrow border with floral patterni...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the border of a shawl. Twill tapestry woven with a cream ground and woven patterning in red and blue. Widest border has left facing butehs with large flowers inside and smaller floral mot...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the corner of a border of a shawl. With a cream ground and woven patterning in red and blue. Widest border has left facing butehs with large flowers inside and smaller floral motifs arou...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

c. 1830

Palla (large patterned border at each end of the shawl): a total of eight densely patterned right-hand facing botehs, separated into compartments by a series of vertical lines between symmetrically ar...

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