Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production date range
Material
- - All -
- (-) canvas
- (-) wool thread
- band
- batiste
- beads
- braid
- brailed gold fillet
- button
- calico
- cotton
- cotton cord
- cotton organdie
- cotton ribbon
- cotton thread
- elastic
- felt
- fine calico
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- gold lattice
- gold thread
- gold tir-tir (gold lustring)
- gold yarn
- hessian
- linen
- linen-and-silk fabric
- metal amalgam
- metal button
- metal foil
- organdie
- pearl
- plastic beads
- plastic button
- porcelain
- rayon
- ribbon
- ribbon of heavy silk fabric
- saddle blanket
- satin
- satin cotton
- satin ribbon
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk brocaded fabric
- silk cordon
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver cordon
- silver fillet
- silver thread
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- straw
- synthetic
- taffeta
- tulle
- undervest
- velvet
- wire
- wool-and-cotton fabric
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- wool fringe
- wool ribbon
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) machine-made embroidery
- 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
- double-darning stitch
- double-darning straw stitch
- festoni (scallop)
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- herring bone stitch
- jaconet
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- light stitch
- namet
- ountitsa
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- pissokenti (back stitch)
- riza (stem stitch)
- rounded
- shadow stitch
- stitch
- stitch that form a zic-zag
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- embroidery of the loom
- engraved
- engraved
- gilding
- glazed
- gold-plating
- gold embroidery
- 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 white embroidery
- niello
- plating
- plisse
- printed
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Period of use
No Value
Occasion
Date range
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.