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Diversity in time, provenance, and technique characterizes the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. Pre-Columbian and Coptic archaeological textiles are among the collection's earliest pieces. Other major holdings include 19th century American and European coverlets, quilts, and needlework, and sub-collection of ethnographic textiles with strengths in South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Turkey.

The collection features both handmade and industrially produced objects created from a wide range of weaving, printing, lacemaking, and embroidery techniques, including works of noted designers such as Jack Lenor Larsen and Dorothy Liebes. Fiber artists are also represented from early works by Peter Collingwood and Claire Zeisler to more recent works by Morgan Clifford and Mary Bero.

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