Digital Repository (All)
Physical Description
Production
Material
- (-) - All -
- band
- beads
- braid
- brailed gold fillet
- branchy silk threads
- bronze
- button
- cabot
- calico
- chain
- corduroy
- cotton
- cotton braid
- cotton cord
- cotton cordon
- cotton pearl
- cotton ribbon
- cotton thread
- felt
- floche tassels
- fullen wool fabric
- gold cord
- gold cordon
- golden brain
- gold fringe
- gold thread
- gold yarn
- hooks and eyes
- knitted button
- linen
- metal amalgam
- metal button
- metal gilded sheet
- metallic elements
- moulinedes (cotton threads)
- ntra
- organdie
- paper
- plastic element
- ribbon
- sailcloth
- satin
- satin
- satin ribbon
- silk
- silk-and-cotton fabric
- silk braid
- silk cord
- silk cordon
- silk ribbon
- silk thread
- silver braid
- silver fillet
- silver thread
- silver thread
- soie floche - slightly twisted silk thread
- spangles
- synthetic band
- synthetic ribbon
- taffeta
- thin gold cord
- tir-tir (lustring)
- undervest
- wool-and-silk cordon
- wool cord
- wool cordon
- wool fringe
- wool thread
- wool yarn
Techniques
- - All -
- (-) lace with hairpin
- 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
- embellished
- embroidered band
- embroidery
- (-) stitch
- 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
- ountitsa
- 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 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 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
User
Period of use
No Value
Occasion
Donation Policy
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