Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production place (Country | Geogr. Area | Prefecture)
Material
- (-) - All -
- beads
- brailed gold fillet
- calico
- cotton
- cotton cord
- cotton organdie
- cotton ribbon
- cotton thread
- elastic
- felt
- fine calico
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- gold thread
- hessian
- linen
- linen-and-silk fabric
- metal button
- metal foil
- mixture of linen and silk yarns
- pearl
- plastic beads
- rayon
- saddle blanket
- satin
- satin cotton
- satin ribbon
- silk
- silk brocaded fabric
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver cordon
- silver fillet
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- straw
- synthetic
- undervest
- velvet
- wire
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- wool fringe
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) machine-made embroidery
- 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
- gold embroidery of the frame
- 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
- lacy band
- machine knitted
- matelasse
- niello
- plisse
- priming coat
- printed
- silver embroidered
- silvering
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
- wiry
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Period of use
No Value
Occasion
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.