EditorialPanel (From a Skirt). France. Date: 1801-1850. Dimensions: 117.4 ? 214.4 cm (46 1/4 ? 84 1/2 in.). Silk, satin weave; embroidered with gold metal wrapped over a silk fibre core, gold fris?, silk, gold metal formed ornaments, "purl," spangles, gold meta...
EditorialCloak that the Hawaiian chiefs wore as a symbol of their high social status. Feather and vegetale fibre. Polynesia. Hawaiian Islands, United States. Last third of the 18th century. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.
EditorialOrnaments and weapons of the Marquesas Islands. Engraving depicting decorative objects from the Marquesas Islands, visited by James Cook during his second Voyage of Discovery in the South Seas in 1774. It was engraved by Robert Benard (1734-1777), afte...
EditorialPanel (From a Skirt). France. Date: 1801-1850. Dimensions: 117.4 ? 214.4 cm (46 1/4 ? 84 1/2 in.). Silk, satin weave; embroidered with gold metal wrapped over a silk fibre core, gold fris?, silk, gold metal formed ornaments, "purl," spangles, gold meta...
EditorialPillow, 1825/75, France, Cotton, plain weave, quilted, cotton batting, lined with cotton, plain weave, 49.9 ? 45 cm (19 5/8 ? 17 3/4 in.), Coat from Three Piece Man?s Suit, Louis XVI period (1774?1789), 1750/75, Italy or France, Italy, Generally known ...
EditorialGaming Bag, 1670/1700, France, Silk, cut velvet weave, embroidered in silver-gilt strips wound around a silk fibre core, outlined in yellow silk threads, blue ground, 23.5 ? 23.5 cm (9 1/4 ? 9 1/4 in.).
EditorialMalanggan effigy from New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago) used for funeral ceremonies and other important events. From the Andre Breton collection. Wood, red ochre, charcoal, cocnut fibre, resin, H: 122 cm Musee du quai Branly, Inv.70.1999.6.1.
EditorialPanel (From a Skirt). France. Date: 1801-1850. Dimensions: 117.4 ? 214.4 cm (46 1/4 ? 84 1/2 in.). Silk, satin weave; embroidered with gold metal wrapped over a silk fibre core, gold fris?, silk, gold metal formed ornaments, "purl," spangles, gold meta...
EditorialPanel (From a Skirt). France. Date: 1801-1850. Dimensions: 117.4 ? 214.4 cm (46 1/4 ? 84 1/2 in.). Silk, satin weave; embroidered with gold metal wrapped over a silk fibre core, gold fris?, silk, gold metal formed ornaments, "purl," spangles, gold meta...
EditorialChalice Cover or Portion of a Burse. Italy or Spain. Date: 1675-1725. Dimensions: 24.5 x 23.7 cm (9 5/8 x 9 3/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; embroidered in silk floss and gilt strips wound around a silk fibre core in satin stitches, French knots; attached ...
EditorialWaistcoat. France or England. Date: 1701-1725. Dimensions: 77.8 ? 113.8 cm (30 5/8 ? 44 3/4 in.). Silk, damask weave; embroidered with gilt fris?, gilt strips wound around a silk fibre core in couching over silk floss covered cardboard, couching and st...
EditorialFrancois Peron examining an aborginal tomb on Maria Island, Tasmania. Complete (left), half opened (right) and dismantled (centre). The grave consists of a cone of wooden fibre over long poles. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after Charles-A...
Editorial'Beating rubber and beating time - to the tune of an old love-sing'. 'The rubber industry in the Belgian Congo: Thumping rubber to remove particles of wood and fibre'. The Illustrated London News. London, October 2, 1905. Source: Colindale, 465. Langua...
Editorial(Left): portrait of an Acholi chief, identified as Faiso, wearing an animal skin and a cowrie decorated headdress surmounted by a feather or fibre contrasting plume. (Right): Portrait of an Acholi chief, identified as Aguen, wearing a patterned shirt ...
EditorialCoir yarn-makers. c.1850. Coir yarn-makers; the man making coconut-fibre string; the woman beating coconut fibre. Watercolour. A later version of Add.Or.1339. Originally published/produced in c.1850. . Source: Add.Or.951,.
EditorialGinning industry: Female labourers working in Ginning Factory (M/s P.S. Sparling & Co, 9 Clive Row) [Calcutta]. View of women sitting beside mounds of cotton separating the seed from the fibre, watched by European staff. Female labourers working in Gin...
EditorialColoured photograph of a masula boat at Madras, taken by Frederick Fiebig in c.1851. The masula is a famous Madras surf boat, a light, open vessel designed and modified to work well through sea and surf conditions off a particular beach. It was flat-bo...
EditorialCoir yarn-makers. c.1828. Coir yarn-makers; the man making coconut-fibre string, the woman beating coconut-fibre. Watercolour. Originally published/produced in c.1828. . Source: Add.Or.1339,.
EditorialUnku with staggered and linear designs. Date/Period: 500 - 700. Plain weave with discontinued warp in camelid fibre. Height: 2,140 mm (84.25 in); Width: 2,430 mm (95.66 in).
EditorialUnku with designs of stylized figures. Date/Period: 600 - 900. Kelim tapestry in cotton and camelid fibre. Height: 1,040 mm (40.94 in); Width: 1,140 mm (44.88 in).
EditorialToy Basket with Contents, Late Period, Dynasty 25?26, ca. 712?525 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Mentuhotep II, Court, among intrusive burials, 1920?22, Palm fibre, reed, Diam. 6 ? H. 5.8 cm (2 3/8 ? 2 5/16 in.), Found ...
EditorialFrancois Peron examining an aborginal tomb on Maria Island, Tasmania. Complete (left), half opened (right) and dismantled (centre). The grave consists of a cone of wooden fibre over long poles. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after Charles-A...
EditorialBluespotted cornetfish, Fistularia tabacaria (Fibre-tailed fistularia). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1801.
EditorialTHE VILLAGE COMEDY, The landlord was a man of Daniel Lambert build. There was a kind of surliness in his civility. . . His burly form at the doorway, seen from the hill, looked picturesque ; but nearer inspection showed that his fibre was coarse, and h...
EditorialHawaiian drum, collected by Captain James Cook (1728-1779). Wood, dark brown with circular base of five supporting human figures and a sharkskin membrane held by plaited vegetable fibre lashing. H: 29,2 cm Inv. 1977-OC-8-1.