Author
Unknown
Publication Date
1625
Publication Place
Turkey (made) Bursa (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 134cm, Width: 66.5cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
423-1889
Record ID
423-1889
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1625
Notes
Cushion cover, voided and brocaded silk velvet or çatma, with large staggered roundels containing red roses and crescents, and arched lappets at upper and lower borders, probably Bursa, Ottoman Turkey, 1625-1650
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Voided and brocaded silk velvet. Satin foundation structure: 4/1 satin, unplied ivory silk filament warp, 1 strand ivory cotton weft. Satin and velvet warp order 3-1. Velvet structure: red and green silk; pile counts: warps 10, along weft 14. Brocade structure: wholly brocaded, 4/1 twill; count 16 and 24; 2 shots between pile. Gilt or silver (?) metal wrap, Z-twist, variable tightness. Uses two different types of kilaptan. Selvedges: 1cm. Uses blue silk warps that use more warp threads closer to the edge; at one band, the wefts float over a set of warps. Selvedge twill: 2/1 or 3/1. 1.2 cm. and 1 cm. Back restored and covered with red cotton cloth; though it is difficult to tell, the main motifs use both gold and silver thread; the silver is in the interior part of the moons at the bottom of each roundel; gold in the larger parts; the extreme striations of the green/blue is carried through on the back, which makes it unlikely that the evenness is the result of fading due to light. One end has tightly wrapped kilaptan. Silk (Textile) Cotton Weaving
Fiziksel açıklama
Cushion cover, voided and brocaded silk velvet or çatma, with main design of staggered roundels containing red roses and crescents, set against red ground, with rosebud and crescent lappets at upper and lower borders. Straight repeat pattern on horizontal axis and point repeat on vertical axis with two minimum pattern areas
Üslup
Ottoman
