Author
Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)
Publication Date
1800
Publication Place
Iran (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 48cm, Width: 26cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
T.234-1910
Record ID
T.234-1910
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1800
Notes
1800s, Persian; Birds
Malzemeler ve teknikler
silk thread, metal thread, weaving
Fiziksel açıklama
Dress fabric of woven silk and metal thread. The top right hand corner has been cut at an angle. There is a selvedge of 2 white cotton threads down the right hand side. Dark satin ground with a very lustrous dark brown warp and a black weft. The pattern wefts are red and metal thread; the metal thread has largely worn away. It is silver strip open s-wound on a yellow silk core. There are rows of large, left-bending botehs worked in metal thread with red centres to the small flowerheads inside each boteh. At the tip of the boteh is a second tiny boteh in metal thread with no red silk details. The ground between the botehs is filled with small motifs including left-facing lionesses [?] below each boteh; a pair of birds face this animal. Between the animals is a vase of flowers with a red-dyed bird above and in between the large and small boteh is what seems to be a red-eyed fish.
