Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Material
- (-) - All -
- alatzas
- band
- beads
- braid
- brailed gold fillet
- branchy silk threads
- cabot
- calico
- cardboard
- clay
- colour
- cotton
- cotton brocade
- cotton cordon
- cotton ribbon
- cotton thread
- felt
- floche cordon
- fullen wool fabric
- gold cordon
- gold thread
- hessian
- hooks and eyes
- linen-and-cotton fabric
- linen-and-silk fabric
- metal foil
- moulinedes (cotton threads)
- paper
- plush
- ribbon
- ribbon of heavy silk fabric
- saddle blanket
- satin cotton
- satin synthetic
- silk
- silk (?)
- silk braid
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver cord
- silver thread
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- synthetic
- thin gold cord
- undervest
- velvet
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- wool fringe
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) dye
- added paint
- applique
- applique embroidery
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- (-) chain
- counted one step vertical stitch
- daring or bouble running
- double-darning stitch
- festoni (scallop)
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- herring bone stitch
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- kavaloriki
- knot-stitch
- light stitch
- meserizi
- namet
- ountitsa
- perasti (darning stitch)
- pissovelonia (back stitch)
- Rethymnon stitch
- richti (thrown stitch)
- riza (stem stitch)
- rococo
- rounded
- shadow stitch
- square
- stitch
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- white open-work hand-made embroidery
- xombliasti
- embroidery of the loom
- gilding
- gilding (?)
- glazed
- gold embroidery
- golden lace
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- knitted with bodkin
- knitted with little needle
- lace
- lace sold by the metre
- lace with little needle
- lacy band
- machine-made embroidery
- matelasse
- plisse
- printed
- silver embroidered
- silvering
- traced design embroidery
- wiry
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Period of use
No Value
Occasion
Donation Policy
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