Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production place (Country | Geogr. Area | Prefecture)
Material
- (-) - All -
- band
- brailed gold fillet
- brisimi (silk thread)
- cotton
- cotton thread
- glass stone
- golden spangles
- golden thread
- gold thread
- gold tir-tir (gold lustring)
- gold yarn
- leather
- linen
- linen-and-silk fabric
- metal
- mixture of linen and silk yarns
- plastic button
- satin
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk thread
- silver thread
- silver tir-tir (silver lustring)
- spangles
- synthetic
- tir-tir (lustring)
- velvet
- wool cordon
- wool thread
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) gold embroidery of the frame
- (-) lacy band
- (-) priming coat
- added paint
- applique
- applique embroidery
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- double-faced embroidery
- dye
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- applique
- byzantine
- chain
- counted one step vertical stitch
- cut embroidery
- daisy
- daring or bouble running
- dense "rug" stitch
- double-darning stitch
- double-darning straw stitch
- festoni (scallop)
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- herring bone stitch
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- knot-stitch
- light stitch
- meserizi
- perasti (darning stitch)
- psaragkathi (herring bone stitch)
- Rethymnon stitch
- richti (thrown stitch)
- riza (stem stitch)
- rounded
- stitch
- stitch that form a zic-zag
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- xombliasti
- embroidery of the loom
- enamel
- engraved
- gilding
- glazed
- gold-plating
- gold-plating
- gold embroidery
- golden lace
- 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 little needle
- machine-made embroidery
- machine knitted
- matelasse
- niello
- plisse
- printed
- silver embroidered
- silvering
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
- wiry
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
Period of use
No Value
Occasion
Donation Policy
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