EditorialFringe, Medium: silk Technique: plain weave, Yellow, brown and red fringe with a heading and skirt threads tied in loops; every fourth supporting a tassel with wired ornaments., Spain, 18th century, trimmings, Fringe.
EditorialHood of a Cope, 19th century, Spain, Silk in satin weave, lining is recent, braid in pattern in gilt metal and yellow silk floss, fringe of yellow silk wrapped with gilt metal with ornaments made of thin gauge metal in various shapes, embossed (brass c...
EditorialFringe, Medium: silk Technique: plain weave, Yellow, brown and red fringe with a heading and skirt threads tied in loops; every fourth supporting a tassel with wired ornaments., Spain, 18th century, trimmings, Fringe.
EditorialA design by Paquin. 'A new and very pretty skirt which is suitable for wearing at the sea-side, of lavender blue piqué, made for ... Mademoiselle Cécile Sorel. Width is given to the dress by the machine stictched folds which are left loose a little b...
EditorialTwelve-wired bird-of-paradise, Seleucidis melanoleucus. Mislabeled Cape sugarbird, Promerops cafer. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire...
EditorialBreastplate of a harness with decorations, Breastplate, iron, blank, made of three parts, the edges of the neck and armcuts are wired, flanged around and riveted to the inside of the breastplate. Iron buckles riveted under the edge of the neckline. Str...
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