Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production place (Country | Geogr. Area | Prefecture)
Material
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- band
- beads
- brailed gold fillet
- branchy silk threads
- cabot
- calico
- cardboard
- cotton
- cotton brocade
- cotton cord
- cotton thread
- felt
- fine cordon
- gold chevron
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- golden brain
- golden spangles
- gold thread
- gold tir-tir (gold lustring)
- gold yarn
- hessian
- hooks and eyes
- leather
- little pin
- metal gilded sheet
- metallic elements
- ntra
- pearl
- pearl
- plastic beads
- plush
- satin
- satin cotton
- satin synthetic
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk brocaded fabric
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver cordon
- silver thread
- silver thread
- silver tir-tir (silver lustring)
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- stones
- synthetic
- taffeta
- thin gold cord
- tichreli
- tir-tir (lustring)
- velvet
- waxcloth (?)
- wood
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) gold embroidery
- (-) golden lace
- added paint
- applique
- applique embroidery
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- dye
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- applique
- 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
- festoni (scallop)
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- light stitch
- meserizi
- namet
- ountitsa
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- Rethymnon stitch
- riza (stem stitch)
- rococo
- rounded
- stitch
- stitch that form a zic-zag
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- xombliasti
- embroidery of the loom
- enamel
- engraved
- engraved
- fastening
- gilding
- glazed
- gold-plating
- gold-plating
- gold embroidery of the frame
- granulated
- hammered
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- insertion
- knitted
- knitted with beads
- knitted with bodkin
- lace
- lace sold by the metre
- lace with little needle
- lacy band
- machine-made embroidery
- niello
- plisse
- printed
- silver embroidered
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
- wiry
- woodcut and brush
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Period of use
Occasion
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 - beginning 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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