Artworks

Indo-Portuguese

Linen, plain weave; quilted embroidered with silk floss in darning and back stitches; original silk fringe and tassels · 1675

Rebecca Stonier Plaisted

Silk, warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered with silk floss, silk yarns, and silk-wrapped-metal purl in brick, bullion, Ceylon, chain, knot, lattice filling, overcast, running, satin, Smyrna cross, tent, and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; French and Turkey knots; applied areas of linen, plain weave; seed pearls, coral beads, and mica; and silk, plain weave with ground weft fringe; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal strip, plain weave; silver hardware; wooden frame; lined with marbled paper; silk, plain weave; and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet · 1628

Ann Bourn

Linen, plain weave; bands of cut and drawn thread work in double faggot, double hem, interlocking lace, overcast, Roumanian, and needle lace filling stitches; bands of needle lace worked on a cut and drawn thread ground; and bands embroidered in double faggot, double hem, double running, eyelet, satin and stem stitches · 1625

Indo-Portuguese

Linen, plain weave; in two thicknesses; quilted; embroidered in silk in chain stitch; attached fringe on all four edges: warp-faced, weft rib plain weave; with weft fringe · 1601

Andrea del Sarto

Linen, plain weave underlaid with silk, plain weave with insert medallion of silk, warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered with silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and linen in satin, split and stem stitches; couching and French knots; edged with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with patterning wefts and complementary weft weave tapes; lined with silk, plain weave · 1575

Ancient Egyptian

Linen, plain weave; painted; warp fringe · -332