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 ...
EditorialMichael Matheson MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, meets trainees at Openreach's Scottish training school in Livingston, West Lothian, Openreach, West Lothian, Scotland UK - 10 Mar 2022
EditorialControversial artist AK47 unveils new installation "Pile of Shite" featuring a"Banksy" spray painted cone with asking price of over £1 million pounds
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.
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...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk; vegetable fiber Technique: painted and printed on fancy gauze weave, Sheer scarf of fancy gauze weave; white with tiny all-over painted flowers; warp of some vegetable fibre-weft of silk. One tuck near hem., China, 18th century,...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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.
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk; vegetable fiber Technique: painted and printed on fancy gauze weave, Sheer scarf of fancy gauze weave; white with tiny all-over painted flowers; warp of some vegetable fibre-weft of silk. One tuck near hem., China, 18th century,...
EditorialBalance used to weigh coca leaves and gold, elements highly appreciated and used in trade and for taxation purposes. Bone, vegetable fibre, shells, turquoise and silver. Inca culture (1400-1533 AD). Peru. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.
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.
EditorialDanielle Romanetti, at work on a sock project at her yarn shop, Fibre Space, in Alexandria, Va., on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (Jared Soares/The New York Times)
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...