Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production date range
Material
- - All -
- (-) gold thread
- band
- braid
- brailed gold fillet
- branchy silk threads
- cabot
- calico
- cardboard
- clay
- colour
- cotton
- cotton cordon
- cotton ribbon
- cotton thread
- elastic
- felt
- floche cordon
- floche tassels
- fullen wool fabric
- glass
- gold cordon
- hessian
- hooks and eyes
- horse-hair
- knitted button
- metallic elements
- moulinedes (cotton threads)
- plastic
- plastic beads
- ribbon
- satin cotton
- satin ribbon
- satin synthetic
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver cord
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- stucco
- synthetic
- tar
- thin gold cord
- undervest
- velvet
- velvet ribbon
- wax
- wood
- wool-and-silk cordon
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- wool fringe
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) dye
- applique
- applique embroidery
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- double-faced embroidery
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- applique
- buttonhole
- byzantine
- chain
- daring or bouble running
- double-darning stitch
- double-darning straw stitch
- fine drawing
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- herring bone stitch
- jaconet
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- knot-stitch
- light stitch
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- psaragkathi (herring bone stitch)
- richti (thrown stitch)
- riza (stem stitch)
- stitch
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- white open-work hand-made embroidery
- xombliasti
- embroidery of the loom
- engraved
- gilding
- gilding (?)
- glazed
- gold embroidery
- gold embroidery of the frame
- golden lace
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- knitted
- knitted with bodkin
- lace
- lace sold by the metre
- lace with little needle
- lacy band
- machine-made embroidery
- matelasse
- 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
Date range
Donation Policy
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