Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production date range
Material
- (-) - All -
- band
- beads
- braid
- brailed gold fillet
- branchy silk threads
- cabot
- calico
- cotton
- cotton brocade
- cotton ribbon
- felt
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- golden brain
- gold thread
- hessian
- hooks and eyes
- metal
- metal foil
- plastic button
- rich brocaded fabric
- saddle blanket
- satin
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk brocaded fabric
- silk cord
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk fringe
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver cord
- silver cordon
- small woollen tassels
- spangles
- synthetic
- taffeta
- undervest
- velvet
- wool-and-cotton fabric
- wool-and-silk fabric
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- woolen button
- wool fringe
- wool ribbon
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- applique
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- dye
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- (-) terzidiko (gold tailored)
- basting stitch
- buttonhole
- byzantine
- chain
- counted one step vertical stitch
- cut embroidery
- daisy
- dense "rug" stitch
- double-darning stitch
- festoni (scallop)
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- herring bone stitch
- jaconet
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- light stitch
- meserizi
- namet
- ountitsa
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- psaragkathi (herring bone stitch)
- Rethymnon stitch
- riza (stem stitch)
- rococo
- rounded
- small cross
- stitch
- stitch that form a zic-zag
- straight
- white open-work hand-made embroidery
- xombliasti
- embroidery of the loom
- enamel
- engraved
- engraved
- gilding
- glazed
- gold-plating
- gold-plating
- gold embroidery
- gold embroidery of the frame
- granulated
- hammered
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- knitted
- knitted with beads
- knitted with bodkin
- knitted with little needle
- lace
- lace sold by the metre
- lace with hairpin
- lace with little needle
- lacy band
- machine-made embroidery
- machine-made white embroidery
- machine knitted
- matelasse
- niello
- plating
- plisse
- priming coat
- printed
- rafti
- silver embroidered
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
- wiry
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Period of use
Occasion
Date range
- - All -
- (-) beginning of 20th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- beginning of 20th century - middle of 20th century
- end of 19th century
- end of 19th century - beginning of 20th century
- first half of 20th century
- middle of 19th century
- middle of 20th century
- second half of 19th century
- second half of 20th century
Donation Policy
Support the CMLE
The enrichment of the CMLE’s collections, with the aim of safekeeping, preserving, utilising and promoting them, has been a constant goal throughout all these years.
If you wish to donate objects to the CMLE, please download and complete the special item donation form.