Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Material
- - All -
- (-) cotton thread
- band
- beads
- brailed gold fillet
- cabot
- calico
- cane
- cardboard
- cordon
- cotton
- cotton fillet
- cotton ribbon
- felt
- fine calico
- fur
- gold button
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- golden spangles
- gold stars
- gold thread
- gold tir-tir (gold lustring)
- gold yarn
- linen-and-cotton fabric
- metal
- metal amalgam
- metal gilding
- plastic
- porcelain
- rich brocaded fabric
- satin
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk cordon
- silk thread
- silver button
- silver thread
- spangles
- tir-tir (lustring)
- velvet
- wood
- wool ribbon
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) gold embroidery of the frame
- (-) knitted with bodkin
- added paint
- applique
- applique embroidery
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- dye
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- basting stitch
- buttonhole
- 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
- namet
- ountitsa
- perasti (darning stitch)
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- pissokenti (back stitch)
- pissovelonia (back stitch)
- richti (thrown stitch)
- riza (stem stitch)
- rounded
- shadow stitch
- square
- stitch
- stitch that form a zic-zag
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- embroidery of the loom
- gilding
- glazed
- gold embroidery
- hammered
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- knitted
- knitted with little needle
- lace
- lace sold by the metre
- lace with hairpin
- lace with little needle
- lacy band
- machine-made embroidery
- machine-made white embroidery
- plisse
- printed
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Period of use
No Value
Occasion
Donation Policy
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