Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production date range
Material
- - All -
- (-) cotton cordon
- (-) floche cordon
- (-) gold cordon
- (-) silk cordon
- (-) silver cordon
- (-) spangles
- (-) wool cordon
- alatzas
- band
- brailed gold fillet
- calico
- cotton
- cotton brocade
- cotton pearl
- cotton ribbon
- cotton thread
- felt
- floche tassels
- fullen wool fabric
- gold cord
- gold thread
- leather
- linen
- metal
- metal amalgam
- metal button
- plush
- ribbon
- satin
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk brocaded fabric
- silk cord
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver fillet
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- synthetic ribbon
- velvet
- velvet ribbon
- wool cord
- wool ribbon
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- applique
- applique embroidery
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- dye
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- (-) herring bone stitch
- buttonhole
- chain
- counted one step vertical stitch
- daisy
- double-darning stitch
- festoni (scallop)
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- jaconet
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- knot-stitch
- light stitch
- namet
- ountitsa
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- psaragkathi (herring bone stitch)
- Rethymnon stitch
- richti (thrown stitch)
- riza (stem stitch)
- rococo
- stitch
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- embroidery of the loom
- engraved
- engraved
- gilding
- gilding (?)
- glazed
- gold embroidery
- gold embroidery of the frame
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- knitted
- knitted with bodkin
- 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
- matelasse
- niello
- plisse
- printed
- silver embroidered
- silvering
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
- wiry
- woodcut and brush
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Status
Period of use
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.