EditorialYoung Italian woman in dress inspired by antique statues, 15th century. Under a small veil, she wears her long hair loose to the shoulders, a sign that she is unmarried. The violet gauze dress is fastened at the shoulders with gold clasps, bunched at t...
EditorialBorder, Machine-printed and flocked, Stylized rosettes connected by four bunched ribbons reserved in a red, black and pink-colored flocked ground. Red is the basic color of the flock. There is a gray and white ground in the reserved areas which continu...
EditorialFrieze, George Halbert Wallpaper, Brooklyn, New York, Machine-printed paper, A repetitive design of wild roses bunched together with twisting vines. Top and bottom have same stripe border. Printed in greens, tan, yellow and deep pink on a cream-colored...
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk, metallic threads Technique: plain weave with supplemetary weft (brocading), Medium-sized repeat of stylized symmetrical flower sprays of gold with touches of pale pink and coral in a trellis framework of fine silvery leaves and f...
EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: embroidered on plain weave, Headcloth, tabby (imitating netting), with embroidery. In shape of square, except for a section on one corner. Pieced. Very open weave resembling netting with large square meshes; in fine w...
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk Technique: fancy compound satin, Irregular broad stripes of blue satin and white taffeta. Undulating stems and flowers in blue and bunched of polychrome flowers formed by extra wars on the white taffeta stripes., 19th century, wov...
EditorialYoung Italian woman in dress inspired by antique statues, 15th century. Under a small veil, she wears her long hair loose to the shoulders, a sign that she is unmarried. The violet gauze dress is fastened at the shoulders with gold clasps, bunched at t...
EditorialThree Panels, late 14th century, Made in Florence, Italy, Italian, Linen, colored silks, metal thread (white silk wrapped with strips of silver leaf, yellow silk wrapped with strips of gold), linen floss padding, couching; split and satin stitiches, ba...
EditorialPeasant girl of the environs of Wurtzburg, Franconia, Germany, 19th century. The headband covers the elegance of the bonnet, and the fichu is bunched up around the throat. She wears an apron over pleated petticoats. Handcoloured copperplate engraving b...
EditorialThe oyster lass or Edinburgh fishwoman. She wears a woollen pea jacket, kerchief, and numerous layers of petticoat bunched up at the hip. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinbur...
EditorialYoung Italian woman in dress inspired by antique statues, 15th century. Under a small veil, she wears her long hair loose to the shoulders, a sign that she is unmarried. The violet gauze dress is fastened at the shoulders with gold clasps, bunched at t...