Design for a brooch with heraldic motifs by Wilhelm Hermann Haarstrick (vom BeEntwurf vergebener Titel)

I've brough this brooch, which was my nanny's brooch. I grew up in the United States, in a tight-knit Irish American community in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. All the branches of my...

A men's cloth (hinggi), consisting of two weaves sewn together. On the cloth are skull trees and horses. The central band shows the 'patola ratu' motif, a motif inspired by the pat...

This small brooch is richly decorated. In the centre a motive of cut out larger and smaller circles can be seen. In the centre of the larger circles, and in between, black (imitati...

This small brooch has within a circle of elliptical motifs clearly a star-shape with blue (imitation) gemstone as central motif.´ Outside the circle are ten also blue stones embedd...

This small brooch has the openwork shape of a heart. In the middle of the heart is a sequin with balls on it in the shape of a cross. At the top of the heart are alternately a larg...