Digital Repository (All)
Style
- (-) - All -
- ancient greek style
- byzantine style
- civil, costume with kavadi
- costume with fustanella
- costume with kavadi
- costume with sigouni (sleeveless woollen coat)
- eastern type
- island
- island, costume with kavadi
- island, renaissance type
- island, town costume
- newer version
- newer version type
- peasant, costume with kavadi
- peasant, costume with sigouni (sleeveless woollen coat)
- peasant
- town costume
Physical Description
Production
Production date range
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- 18th century
- 18th century - 19th century
- 19th century
- 19th century - 20th century
- 19th century - beginning of 20th century
- 20th century
- beginning of 19th century
- beginning of 20th century
- beginning of 20th century (?)
- beginning of 21st century
- end of 18th century - beginning of 19th century
- end of 19th century
- end of 19th century - 20th century
- end of 19th century - beginning of 20th century
- end of 20th century
- first half of 20th century
- middle of 19th century
- middle of 19th century - beginning of 20th century
- middle of 20th century
- second half of 19th century
- second half of 19th century - beginning of 20th century
Production place (Country | Geogr. Area | Prefecture)
Material
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- acrylic
- alatzas
- band
- beads
- braid
- brailed gold fillet
- branchy silk threads
- brisimi (silk thread)
- brocade
- bronte taffeta
- button
- cabot
- calico
- cardboard
- chevron
- coral beads
- cord
- cordon
- cotton
- cotton braid
- cotton brocade
- cotton cord
- cotton cord
- cotton cordon
- cotton fillet
- cotton fringe
- cotton gauze
- cotton pearl
- cotton ribbon
- cotton tape (tied around waist)
- cotton thread
- elastic
- felt
- fine calico
- fine cordon
- floche cord
- floche cordon
- floche tassels
- fullen wool fabric
- fur
- garment
- gauze
- glass
- gold button
- gold chevron
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- golden brain
- golden ribbon
- gold fringe
- gold stars
- gold tassels
- gold thread
- gold tir-tir (gold lustring)
- gold yarn
- heavy silk fabric
- hooks and eyes
- horse-hair
- knitted button
- leather
- linen
- linen-and-cotton fabric
- linen-and-silk fabric
- linen thread
- metal
- metal amalgam
- metal box
- metal button
- metal foil
- metal gilded sheet
- metal gilding
- metal lattice
- metallic elements
- metallic fillet
- metal silver-plated sheet
- metal thread
- moulinedes (cotton threads)
- padding
- paper
- pearl
- pique
- plastic
- plastic button
- plush
- porcelain
- primer
- ribbon
- ribbon of heavy silk fabric
- rich brocaded fabric
- saddle blanket
- sailcloth
- satin
- satin
- satin cotton
- satin ribbon
- satin synthetic
- silk
- silk
- silk-and-cotton brocade
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk braid
- silk brocaded fabric
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk fillet
- silk fringe
- silk ribbon
- silk tassels
- silk thread
- silver braid
- silver button
- silver chevron
- silver cord
- silver cordon
- silver fillet
- silver spangles
- silver thread
- silver thread
- sintefi (nacre)
- sleeveless cotton or woollen dress
- small woollen tassels
- snap fastening
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- stones
- string
- stucco
- synthetic
- synthetic ribbon
- synthetic thread
- taffeta
- tar
- tassels
- thin gold cord
- tichreli
- tir-tir (lustring)
- tulle
- undervest
- velvet
- velvet button
- velvet ribbon
- watered taffeta
- wax
- wire
- wood
- wool-and-cotton fabric
- wool-and-silk fabric
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- woolen tassels
- wool fringe
- woollen fillet
- wool ribbon
- wool tassels
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) embellished
- added paint
- adhered
- applique
- applique embroidery
- chyti (with embroideries in open or drawn threadwork)
- counted threadwork
- chain
- counted one step vertical stitch
- daring or bouble running
- double-darning stitch
- double cross-stitch
- gobelin
- pissovelonia (back stitch)
- psaragkathi (herring bone stitch)
- richti (thrown stitch)
- riddled stitch
- simple
- single cross-stitch
- stitch
- stitch that form a zic-zag
- straight
- straight stitch
- strict
- crocheted lace
- double-faced embroidery
- dye
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- (-) ountitsa
- applique
- basting stitch
- buttonhole
- byzantine
- chain
- counted one step vertical stitch
- crimped stitch
- cut embroidery
- daisy
- daring or bouble running
- dense "rug" stitch
- double-darning stitch
- double-darning straw stitch
- festoni (scallop)
- fine drawing
- flat stitch
- french knot
- gobelin
- grafti (traced design)
- hem stitching
- herring bone stitch
- jaconet
- kassinaki (chain stitch)
- kavaloriki
- knot-stitch
- light stitch
- meserezi
- meserizi
- namet
- perasti (darning stitch)
- pissogazi (back stitch)
- pissokenti (back stitch)
- pissovelonia (back stitch)
- psaragkathi (herring bone stitch)
- Rethymnon stitch
- richti (thrown stitch)
- riza (stem stitch)
- rococo
- rounded
- shadow stitch
- small cross
- square
- stitch
- stitch that form a zic-zag
- straight
- terzidiko (gold tailored)
- white open-work hand-made embroidery
- xombliasti
- embroidery of the frame
- 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
- knitted with little needle
- 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
- pierced
- plating
- plisse
- priming coat
- printed
- rafti
- silver embroidered
- silvering
- traced design embroidery
- white open-work embroidery
- wiry
- woodcut and brush (?)
- woodcut and brush
Use
Population / Cultural / Ethnic Group
Period of use
Date range
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- 19th century
- 19th century - 20th century
- 19th century - beginning of 20th century
- 20th century
- beginning of 20th century
- beginning of 20th century (?)
- beginning of 20th century - middle of 20th century
- beginning of 21st century
- end of 18th century - beginning of 19th century
- end of 19th century
- end of 19th century - beginning of 20th century
- end of 20th century
- first half of 20th century
- middle of 19th century
- middle of 19th century - beginning of 20th century
- middle of 20th century
- second half of 19th century
- second half of 19th century - beginning of 20th century
Place of use (Country | Geogr. Area | Prefecture)
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