Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production date range
Material
- - All -
- (-) spangles
- band
- beads
- braid
- brailed gold fillet
- branchy silk threads
- brisimi (silk thread)
- bronze
- button
- cabot
- calico
- cardboard
- chain
- cordon
- cotton
- cotton cord
- cotton cordon
- cotton ribbon
- cotton thread
- felt
- fullen wool fabric
- gauze
- gold cordon
- golden thread
- gold thread
- gold yarn
- hessian
- hooks and eyes
- horse-hair
- ivory
- knitted button
- linen
- linen-and-cotton fabric
- linen-and-silk fabric
- metal
- metal amalgam
- metal thread
- mixture of linen and silk yarns
- moulinedes (cotton threads)
- paper
- plastic
- plastic button
- ribbon
- rich brocaded fabric
- satin
- satin cotton
- satin ribbon
- satin synthetic
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver cord
- silver thread
- silver thread
- snap fastening
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- stucco
- synthetic
- tar
- undervest
- velvet
- wax
- wool-and-cotton fabric
- wool-and-silk fabric
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- wool fringe
- wool tassels
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) embroidered band
- applique
- applique embroidery
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- double-faced embroidery
- dye
- embellished
- embroidery
- buttonhole
- byzantine
- chain
- daring or bouble running
- double-darning stitch
- festoni (scallop)
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- herring bone stitch
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- knot-stitch
- light stitch
- meserizi
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- Rethymnon stitch
- riza (stem stitch)
- rococo
- stitch
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- embroidery of the frame
- embroidery of the loom
- gilding
- gilding (?)
- glazed
- gold embroidery
- gold embroidery of the frame
- golden lace
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- knitted
- lace
- lace sold by the metre
- lace with hairpin
- lace with little needle
- lacy band
- machine-made embroidery
- machine-made white embroidery
- matelasse
- plisse
- priming coat
- printed
- silver embroidered
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
- wiry
- woodcut and brush
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Age
No Value
Status
No Value
Period of use
No Value
Occasion
Date range
Donation Policy
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