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panel of Yun brocade
early 17th century
This item is a panel of Yun brocade in typical Ming brocade style, with a dark blue ground and polychrome weft patterning. The design consists of large bao xian flowers, an auspicious floral motif wh...
shawl
late 17th Century
The shawl consists of an oblong of very fine twill woven yellow fabric. It has a woven pink and green repeating floral design in the main borders at the ends of the shawl and small floral and foliate...
fragment
early 17th Century
Two pieces of silk sewn together with running stitch, with a design in two shades of green of stylised asymmetrical flowers.
ikat fragment
1630-1660
A chiné silk with a coarser linen weft thread in a satin weave, with a very narrow selvege. This piece is in yellow, white, red and green. It is believed that Ikat weaving didn’t begin in Europe u...
embroidered fragment
17th Century
Embroidered silk in Bayeux or laidwork satin stitch, depicting flowers, leaves and scrolls in blues, greens and yellows on a neutral silk ground with one seam.
hand towel
17th century
This item is embroidered at each end with a border pattern composed of stylised flowers, foliate and leaf motifs. Stitch techniques used include double darning, satin stitch, fishbone stitch and doub...
hand towel
17th century
This item has been embroidered at both ends with a pair of sprays of flowers with curved and hooked stems, set horizontally. Double darning stitch, fishbone stitch, satin stitch and double running st...
mirror cover
late 17th century
This item has been embroidered along the edges with a border pattern of repeating isolated whirl motifs set side by side. The embroidery techniques used include double darning stitch, double running ...
hand towel
17th century
This item is embroidered at both ends with a pair of stylised narcissi and serrated leaf motifs with curved stems. Curved stems with hooked ends are a typical motif used in Turkish embroidery. Two n...
shawl
Late 17th century
Very finely twill woven, natural coloured, shawl with a narrow decorative band of a geometric floral patterns edging each long side edge. The same band design is worked width wise to edge the wider fl...
sampler
17th century
Band sampler. The patterning on this item consists of various motifs embroidered in differently coloured bands running across the width of the fabric. These motifs include human figures (boxers), aco...