Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Production date range
Material
- (-) - All -
- cabot
- cotton
- cotton cord
- cotton cordon
- cotton pearl
- cotton ribbon
- cotton thread
- felt
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- gold thread
- knitted button
- metal gilding
- plastic
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk thread
- silver fillet
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- synthetic
- wool thread
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) knitted with little needle
- (-) plating
- added paint
- applique
- applique embroidery
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- crocheted lace
- dye
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- (-) richti (thrown stitch)
- applique
- basting stitch
- buttonhole
- byzantine
- chain
- counted one step vertical stitch
- cut embroidery
- daisy
- daring or bouble running
- dense "rug" stitch
- double-darning stitch
- festoni (scallop)
- fine drawing
- flat stitch
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- herring bone stitch
- jaconet
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- knot-stitch
- light stitch
- meserizi
- namet
- ountitsa
- perasti (darning stitch)
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- psaragkathi (herring bone stitch)
- Rethymnon stitch
- riza (stem stitch)
- rococo
- rounded
- small cross
- stitch
- stitch that form a zic-zag
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- white open-work hand-made embroidery
- xombliasti
- embroidery of the loom
- enamel
- engraved
- engraved
- fastening
- gilding
- gilding (?)
- glazed
- gold-plating
- gold-plating
- gold embroidery
- gold embroidery of the frame
- golden lace
- granulated
- hammered
- handwoven fabric
- industrially woven textile
- insertion
- knitted
- knitted with beads
- knitted with bodkin
- lace
- lace sold by the metre
- lace with hairpin
- lace with little needle
- lacy band
- little needle band
- machine-made embroidery
- machine-made white embroidery
- machine knitted
- matelasse
- niello
- plisse
- priming coat
- printed
- rafti
- silver embroidered
- silvering
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
- wiry
- woodcut and brush
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
User
Age
No Value
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.