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cloak miniature
before 1950
A scale replica of the 'capote' (or 'capote e capelo') worn by Azorean women from around the nineteenth century to the 1930s/40s. The style of capote varied on different islands, this copies the styl...
songket (two piece)
late 20th Century
A songket in two pieces, which would be sewn together to form a complete songket. (1) songket Aceh (an outer hip cloth for men): a black silk weave with supplementary weft designs of tumpals and diamo...
Kasab Aceh
late 20th Century
A metal embroidery panel made from maroon silk velvet, with gold metallic borders and organic motifs. Three types of metallic thread are used (not a plastic reproduction): two gold and one bronze, plu...
Egypt Coptic Notes [correspondence and lecture notes]
Pesel, Louisa F (1947); Newberry, Professor Percy E (1868-1949); Welsh, S L
early 20th Century
An orange folder containing: publication Les Manufacturers D'Etoffe en Egypte au moyen age, 1904.; manuscript notes; order for Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) photographs; 3 photographs; letter to Pe...