19th century
One half of a two-panel Navajo dress
119.8 × 82.4 cm (47 3/16 × 32 7/16 in.)
Denman Waldo Ross, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1931
Resist-dyed red damask silk utilizing stitch-resist (nuishime shibori) and tie-dying (kanoko shibori) techniques; selected motifs embroidered with gold-paper-wrapped and polychrome silk threads
18th centuryJapaneseSilk brocade: medium green silk ground of dyed yarns in tabby weave (possibly in lampas weave), the ground interwoven in brocade with strips of double-layered paper faced with gold leaf (possibly on a ground of red bole)
13th-14th centuryChineseSilk and metal-wrapped silk
15th centuryOttomanInk on silk
20th centuryAustrianYellow silk ground with embroidered decoration
18th centuryChineseTextile fibers
20th centuryCroatianSilk embroidery on red velvet
Looped wool pile on linen ground
5th-7th centuryCopticPolychrome silk-floss embroidery in satin, stem, and long and short stiches on an orange silk ground; blue macramé fringe
17th-18th centuryKoreanPieced velvet and satin
19th-20th centuryEuropean?