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One of a collection of samples of Paisley shawl patterns, short length of a woven border with long cone or buta shapes at the centre, detailed multi-coloured design predominantly in shades of red, blue and green: probably Scottish, Paisley, mid-19th century
Woollen cloth fragment with a simple check design, from the mouth of a pot containing a hoard of Roman coins, part of a hoard buried c. 230 AD and found on 9 August 1933 in Bell's Meadow, Falkirk, Stirlingshire
Length of fabric, cream wool warp and weft hold together a plain weave in the white organza ribbon and are not visible on the front: Scottish, Galashiels, designed by Bernat Klein, possibly late 1960s
Silk panel woven in gold and coloured threads and showing a design of rocks, waves and four-clawed dragons with Buddhist symbols and phoenixes above: China, 18th century
Textile of double cloth weaving in buff and dark brown wools with a repeating bird pattern and conventionalised motifs: South America, Peru, probably late Chimu, c. 14th century
Tapestry woven textile fragment in coloured wools with three stylised faces with diadems and extended tongues: South America, Peru, probably late Nasca period. c. 900 - 1400
Fragment of embroidery mimicking tapestry in broadline style of a red-outlined stylised human figure emanating six serpentine forms, with smaller human and other designs in the interspaces: South America, Peru, Paracas
Brown cotton gauze brocaded in coloured wools with a naturalistic representation of a fish: South America, Peru, late Chimu culture of the coast, 10th - 15th century
White cotton gauze brocaded in coloured wools with two conventionalised human figures: South America, Peru, Chimu, 10th - 14th century
Fragment of complementary warp-faced textile in coloured camelid fibres with a mostly symmetrical pattern of stylised human and animal figures and scroll devices, including a large male figure and a deer, possibly cut from a belt-bag: South America, Chile, Arica Province, c.1000 - 1470AD, possibly Chuquibamba
Chuquibamba tapestry, a pre-Incan finely woven tapestry with an alternating design of eight-pointed stars with square centres, and stylised fish: South America, Peru, Southern Peru, AD 1000-1475, Chuquibamba
Small textile fragment originally from the centre of a mantle, embroidered with a stylised black condor, containing another upside-down condor inside itself, and a small yellow one by its head: South America, Peru, Paracas Region, early Nasca period, c. 6th century
Painted textile fragment of coarse cotton fibre with coloured designs of birds, steps and anthropomorphic beings in four shades of brown-pink, possibly a fake antiquity produced for the tourist market: South America, probably Peru
Cotton woven in split tapestry technique, the colours are faded: South America, Peru, Paracas Necropolis style, c. 300 B.C. - 200 A.D.
Fringed fragment of red textile covered in embroidery of interlocking felines and anthropomorphic figures: South America, Peru, Paracas, early Nasca period, 100 - 600
Black, white and brown strip of cotton cloth with fringes at each end: East Central Africa, Tanganyika Territory, Shinyanga District, Wasukama