Brown textile fragment with plush surface

Panel, made of a full width and a partial width, seamed along selvedges. Natural cotton tabby-woven ground, roller-printed in red. Background composed of shaded bands; pattern shows clusters of leaves and branches of bell-like flowers arranged in two undulating columns. Faded; brown stains. A few very small holes.

Blue and light blue flowers with green stems and leaves on brown stippled ground

A pair of abutted spheres showing the eastern and western hemispheres as they appeared between Cook's voyages and the Louisiana Purchase (1769-1803). Title is placed at the center top, the directional star at the center bottom. Each country and its colonies are delineated in a particular color. Soiled; some worn yarns; edges of ground partially frayed.  Stitches: couching, running, stem.

Brown and white striped textile fragment with ribbed, weft-faced texture

Muted black textile fragment (brown warp and black weft) with thin white stripes

Piece of natural cotton ground. Main area shows blue and green shaded leaves with brown outlines arranged in a lattice pattern. Wide borders at sides show large oval medallions made up of pointed segements; thistle leaves inside and between medallions. Both selvedges. Glazed. A few small holes and stains.

Dark brown ground with small red dots, glazed surface, selvedge

Thin blue stripes on white ground, selvedge on right

Brown ground with beige zigzagging diagonal lines and dark brown broken diagonal lines

Diagonal light and dark brown checkered bands alternating with light and dark brown striped bands

Brown textile fragment with flecks of beige and gray (brown, beige, and gray dyed warp; brown weft)

Brown textile fragment, ribbed weft-faced texture (alternating single and triple warps)

Brown textile fragment with chevron patterned stripes alternating with ribbed pile stripes

Brown textile fragment with wide symmetrical pile ribs, selvedge on left

Brown wedge-shaped textile fragment with napped surface, selvedge across top

Brown ground with red diagonal zigzag lines with small attached leaf motifs, selvedge on right, remnants of glaze on surface

Natural undyed tabby-woven cotton, block and roller-printed in shades of red, blue, mauve, and black. Alternate columns of floral pattern, large-scaled on blue, small-scaled on white. Made of two widths of chintz, seamed and trimmed all round with white, yellow and green cotton fringe. One long tear and several holes, patches and repairs. Faded and stained.

1801 / 1825

1801 / 1825

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