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Antique brocaded vestment. Specimens of antique Italian bro- 
cades. 
Case 11 . — Korean silken garments. 
Case 12. — Straw hats woven by natives of South and Cen- 
tral American countries, Mexico and elsewhere. 
Case 13. — Examples of Turkish textiles. 
No. 14.— A chair-seat of woolen and silk tapestry, exact 
counterpart of the Gobelin weaving. The second piece done in 
America and woven by M. Foussadier for Wm. Baumgarten & Co., 
New York. Made January, 1894. The loom used in the produc- 
tion of this tapestry was made in New York, the harness being 
made of American twine ; the woolen yarns and silk are native 
also, while the bobbins and combs are of home manufacture. 
No. 15. — A Persian prayer rug; size, 14 feet 10 inches long 
by 10 feet wide, composed of twelve individual prayer rugs joined 
deftly and with considerable effect. This rug is of unknown age, 
but the doner states it is several hundred years old. The coloring 
of portions of this rug is very attractive, and it is claimed by ex- 
perts that the art of preparing some of the dyes used has been 
lost. Two of its colorings, a most beautiful velvet green and a 
blue, resembling shades of malachite, are remarkably rich. 
No. 16. — Japanese silk-embroidered picture, “Fujiyama.” 
No. 17. — Japanese silk-embroidered picture, “Plum Blos- 
soms.’' 
Case. 18.— Foreign and domestic manufactured silks. 
No. 19. — Chinese silk-embroidered screen in hand-carved 
teak wood frame. 
No- 20. — Cut velvet picture of Fujiyama. (“Sacred Mount- 
ain”). 
No. 21. — Japanese embroidered picture of ’chrysanthemums. 
No. 22. — Japanese embroidered picture of bird and grasses. 
No. 23 D, 23 a, 23 b. — 80 well selected specimens of Indian 
fabric. A collection of baskets illustrating the ingenuity of the 
Indians of Central and South America in the weaving of straw ; 
fibres and rushes are also to be found upon the walls. 
No. 24. — Mummy and mortuary cloths. 
ALCOVE 107. 
An old original foot-power fabric glove- machine used iri 
Chemnitz, Germany, in 1834. 
