Collection Stories

From The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum

Kimono from Okinawa

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Post date March 22, 2023

Detail of a textile with a dark blue background covered in a floral pattern with orange, red and white flowers

Kimono; Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa, Shuri; 19th century. Ramie, indigo; plain weave, resist-dyed, stenciled; 135 x 124 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 1963.15.7. Museum purchase.

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Loincloth from Indonesia

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Post date March 8, 2023

Two strips of cloth, the left one embellished with red, horizontal stripes and the right one woven in a geometric pattern

Loincloth; Indonesia, Island of Borneo, Kalimantan; late 19th century. Cotton; plain weave, supplementary weft, songket, pilih, embroidery, tassel; 325 x 24 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 66.10. Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1956.

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Textile Fragment from Iran

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Post date February 22, 2023

Almost square textile fragment with a green background and details of various figures in garden scenes

Textile fragment, Iran, 16th-17th century. Cotton, silk; plain weave, embroidery; 61 x 66 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 3.43. Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1931.

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Headcover from Cambodia

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Post date February 8, 2023

Rectangular textile with a dark border with a central, repeating pattern of diagonal lines and circle motifs

Headcover; Southeast Asia, Cambodia. Silk, bound resist, 127 x 69 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 1981.3. Alice Riddle Kindler.

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Flatweave Rug from the Caucasus

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Post date January 25, 2023

Detail of a textile with two sets of geometric, S-shaped motifs facing each other

Flatweave rug, Caucasus, 1875-1925. Wool; plain weave, supplementary-weft wrapping; 255 x 245 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 1989.10.92. Bequest of Arthur D. Jenkins.