Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Decoration
Production
Production date range
Material
- - All -
- (-) wool thread
- alpaca
- beads
- braid
- brailed gold fillet
- brisimi (silk thread)
- button
- cabot
- calico
- cardboard
- coral beads
- cord
- cordon
- cotton
- cotton brocade
- cotton cordon
- cotton ribbon
- cotton tape (tied around waist)
- cotton thread
- felt
- fine calico
- fine cordon
- fullen wool fabric
- fur
- gauze
- gold button
- gold chevron
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- golden brain
- golden ribbon
- golden spangles
- gold lattice
- gold tassels
- gold thread
- gold tir-tir (gold lustring)
- gold yarn
- hessian
- hooks and eyes
- knitted button
- leather
- linen
- linen-and-cotton fabric
- linen-and-silk fabric
- metal
- metal amalgam
- metal button
- metal foil
- metal gilded sheet
- metal lattice
- metallic elements
- ntra
- paper
- pearl
- plush
- porcelain
- ribbon
- rich brocaded fabric
- satin
- satin
- satin cotton
- satin ribbon
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk brocaded fabric
- silk cord
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver button
- silver chevron
- silver cord
- silver cordon
- silver thread
- silver tir-tir (silver lustring)
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- stones
- synthetic
- synthetic ribbon
- synthetic velvet
- taffeta
- tichreli
- tir-tir (lustring)
- undervest
- velvet
- velvet ribbon
- wire
- wool-and-silk fabric
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- 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 embroidery
- machine-made white embroidery
- niello
- plating
- plisse
- printed
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Status
Period of use
No Value
Occasion
Date range
Donation Policy
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