Digital Repository (All)
Style
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- byzantine style
- costume with fustanella
- costume with kavadi
- costume with sigouni (sleeveless woollen coat)
- hieratic
- island
- island, costume with kavadi
- island, renaissance type
- island, town costume
- newer version
- peasant, costume with kavadi
- peasant, costume with sigouni (sleeveless woollen coat)
- peasant
- town costume
Physical Description
Decoration
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- (-) religious motifs
- (-) zoomorphic decoration
- anthropomorphic decoration (;)
- anthropomorphic decoration
- emblems
- geometric decoration
- linear decoration
- marine motifs
- mythological motifs
- religious motifs (?)
- stylized decoration
- stylized flower decoration
- stylized vegetal decoration
- stylized vegetal decoration (?)
- vegetal decoration
Production
Production date range
Production place (Country | Geogr. Area | Prefecture)
Material
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- (-) cotton
- (-) gold yarn
- (-) saddle blanket
- agate
- band
- batiste
- beads
- braid
- brailed gold fillet
- branchy silk threads
- bronze
- button
- cabot
- calico
- cardboard
- chevron
- colour
- coral
- cord
- corduroy
- cotton brocade
- cotton cord
- cotton cordon
- cotton gauze
- cotton ribbon
- cotton tape (tied around waist)
- cotton thread
- elastic
- enamel
- felt
- fine calico
- fine cordon
- fullen wool fabric
- fur
- garment
- gauze
- glass stone
- gold chevron
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- golden brain
- golden spangles
- gold fringe
- gold lattice
- gold stars
- gold thread
- gold tir-tir (gold lustring)
- hessian
- hooks and eyes
- ivory
- keel
- leather
- linen
- linen-and-cotton fabric
- linen-and-silk fabric
- linen thread
- little pin
- metal
- metal amalgam
- metal foil
- metal gilded sheet
- metal gilding
- metallic elements
- mixture of linen and silk yarns
- moulinedes (cotton threads)
- ntra
- paper
- pearl
- pearl
- plastic
- plastic beads
- plastic button
- plastic spangles
- plush
- ribbon
- ribbon of heavy silk fabric
- rich brocaded fabric
- rope
- sackcloth
- satin
- satin
- satin cotton
- satin ribbon
- satin synthetic
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk brocaded fabric
- silk cord
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver chevron
- silver cord
- silver cord
- silver cordon
- silver fillet
- silver thread
- silver thread
- silver tir-tir (silver lustring)
- sintefi (nacre)
- small woollen tassels
- snap fastening
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- stones
- strass
- straw
- synthetic
- synthetic thread
- taffeta
- tassels
- thin gold cord
- tichreli
- tinplating
- tir-tir (lustring)
- tulle
- undervest
- velvet
- waxcloth (?)
- wire
- wood
- wool-and-cotton thread
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- woolen cord
- wool ribbon
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
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- added paint
- applique
- applique embroidery
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- dye
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- basting stitch
- buttonhole
- byzantine
- chain
- counted one step vertical stitch
- crimped stitch
- cut embroidery
- daring or bouble running
- double-darning stitch
- double-darning straw stitch
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- light stitch
- meserizi
- namet
- ountitsa
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- riza (stem stitch)
- rococo
- rounded
- stitch
- stitch that form a zic-zag
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- xombliasti
- embroidery of the loom
- glazed
- gold embroidery
- gold embroidery of the frame
- golden lace
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- knitted
- knitted with beads
- lace
- lace sold by the metre
- lace with little needle
- lacy band
- machine-made embroidery
- printed
- silver embroidered
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
Period of use
Date range
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- 19th century
- 19th century - 20th century
- 19th century - beginning of 20th century
- 20th century
- beginning of 20th century
- end of 18th century - beginning of 19th century
- end of 19th century
- end of 19th century - beginning of 20th century
- end of 20th century
- first half of 20th century
- middle of 20th century
- second half of 20th century
Place of use (Country | Geogr. Area | Prefecture)
Donation Policy
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