Towel, 18th century, Greece, Northern Sporades Islands, Lesbos, Mytilene, Mytilene, Linen and silk, plain weave self patterned by ground weft floats, embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in Bosnian, flat, double running, running (pattern darning) twined double running, and satin stitches, edged with plied warp fringe with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk tassels, x cm (99 1/4 x 15 1/2 in

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Towel, 18th century, Greece, Northern Sporades Islands, Lesbos, Mytilene, Mytilene, Linen and silk, plain weave self patterned by ground weft floats, embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in Bosnian, flat, double running, running (pattern darning) twined double running, and satin stitches, edged with plied warp fringe with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk tassels, x cm (99 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.)

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