Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production place (Country | Geogr. Area | Prefecture)
Material
- (-) - All -
- beads
- braid
- branchy silk threads
- branchy woollen threads
- button
- cabot
- calico
- cotton
- cotton thread
- felt
- fullen wool fabric
- glass stone
- gold cordon
- gold lattice
- gold thread
- gold tir-tir (gold lustring)
- gold yarn
- leather
- linen
- linen-and-silk fabric
- metal
- metal amalgam
- mixture of linen and silk yarns
- moulinedes (cotton threads)
- porcelain
- ribbon
- ribbon of heavy silk fabric
- satin
- silk
- silk braid
- silk cordon
- silk fillet
- silk fringe
- silk thread
- silver thread
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- synthetic
- taffeta
- velvet
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) gold-plating
- (-) machine-made white embroidery
- adhered
- applique
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- dye
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- buttonhole
- chain
- counted one step vertical stitch
- daring or bouble running
- double-darning straw stitch
- festoni (scallop)
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- herring bone stitch
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- ountitsa
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- pissokenti (back stitch)
- riza (stem stitch)
- rococo
- rounded
- shadow stitch
- stitch
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- xombliasti
- embroidery of the loom
- enamel
- engraved
- engraved
- gilding
- glazed
- gold-plating
- gold embroidery
- gold embroidery of the frame
- golden lace
- granulated
- hammered
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- knitted
- knitted with bodkin
- lace
- lace sold by the metre
- lace with little needle
- lacy band
- machine-made embroidery
- machine knitted
- matelasse
- niello
- plisse
- priming coat
- printed
- silver embroidered
- silvering
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
- wiry
- woodcut and brush
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Period of use
Place of use (Country | Geogr. Area | Prefecture)
Donation Policy
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