Fabric of Cultures
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Fabric of Cultures
Collection Items
Paracas textile
CAPTION Nazca. Mantle ("The Paracas Textile"), 100-300 C.E. Cotton, camelid fiber, textile: 58 1/4 x 24 1/2 in. (148 x 62.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, John Thomas Underwood Memorial Fund, 38.121 . See…
Wool dyers at work
England had a strong wool production industry in the Middle Ages. That industry led to others that used the resulting textiles, like dying that was most likely done in homes.
Kimonos cover art
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The history of the feminine costume of the world. The beauties of the Japanese costumes." The New York Public Library…
Modernizing the Kimono
Yōshū (Toyohara) Chikanobu, sewing of Western clothes for high ranking ladies (Empress Shōkun promoting Western modes of dress), 1887, trytych of polychrome woodblock prints, ink and color on paper
Gooleeanar [pomegranate color] No. 22 Hindoostan. William Moorcroft Kashmeer 1823. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund
![Gooleeanar [pomegranate color] No. 22 Hindoostan. William Moorcroft Kashmeer 1823. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund](http://fashionindh.org/omeka_projects/files/square_thumbnails/927d19d44886a02a98174866faa979c8.jpg "Gooleeanar [pomegranate color] No. 22 Hindoostan. William Moorcroft Kashmeer 1823. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund")
Paisley pattern from Kashmir
Buddhist vestment
Buddhist vestment with design of autumn grasses and butterflies (made from a Noh costume). Silk and metallic threads in supplementary weft-patterned twill weave silk
