EditorialAfter the Race: Owner or Trainer Riding and Conversing with Jockey on Trainer's Hack; at Right, a Racehouse Being Watered and Rugged after Racing (one of pair), Samuel Alken, 17561815, British, undated, Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textu...
EditorialWomen in casual beige and orange wool dress and woman in afternoon dress in Scottish watered mohair. Background shows woman seated smoking in a hotel lobby. Lithograph with pochoir (stencil) handcolour from the luxury French fashion magazine "Art, Gout...
EditorialBedcover (Crazy Quilt). United States. Date: 1880-1885. Dimensions: 214.6 x 184.8 cm (84 1/2 x 72 3/4 in.). Silk, cotton, and wool, pieced plain, twill, and satin weaves; some with velvet, some with patterning and brocading wefts, and some self-pattern...
EditorialBedcover (Crazy Quilt). United States. Date: 1885. Dimensions: 175.4 x 159.7 cm (69 x 62 7/8 in.). Silk and cotton, pieced plain, twill, satin and satin damask weaves; some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts; some self-patterned; some with su...
EditorialStill not fully recovered, Simone Biles watered down her dismount so she wouldn’t have to twist, performing two back handsprings and a double back flip in the pike position during the women’s balance beam at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. (Photographs by Bedel Saget; composite image by Larry Buchanan/The New York Times)
EditorialEmbossed wool, Medium: wool Technique: moire and glazed plain weave, Bright golden yellow woolen cloth, moire and glazed on one side with medium scale watered effect., ca. 1780, Embossed wool.
EditorialSidewall, Block-printed paper, On gray ground imitating moire or watered silk, two columns - one, of small sprays of pink and blue flowers with trailing green vines and, the other, of larger bouquets of blue, pink, and yellow flowers with trailing vine...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: painted, Multi-colored flowers, leaves and columns on a white watered silk ground., France, 19th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Fragment.
EditorialSidewall - fragment, paper, Wisteria blossom with foliage is the central motif on a background of watered silk or moire pattern., France, 186070, Wallcoverings, Sidewall - fragment.
EditorialPleated fan, Painted paper leaf, carved ivory sticks with mother-of-pearl inlays on the guards, mother-of-pearl thumb guard and washer at the rivet, Pleated fan. Painted paper leaf. Obverse: mythological scene with Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers a...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: moire; warp-faced plain weave, Fragment of Irish poplin. Narrow horizontal stripes of black and green. Watered., The texture of this fabric is the result of a closely set fine silk warp and a thick stiff wool weft to p...
EditorialBox and cover, Cardboard, Rectangular box covered with watered white paper. (B) Cover, with watered paper on outside, edges framed with gold paper. Oval label on top '550 Broadway 552 + Tiffany Compy + New York.' Inside, large label printed in lavender...
EditorialSidewall, Frederick Beck & Co., 1860, Machine-printed paper, On white ground vertical stems bearing light blue poppies, with watered glazed area between them. Drop repeat, straight match. On left margin: 'Fr. Beck and Co. / 110 D W'., New York, USA, ca...