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: 63.5cm, Width: 64.5cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
173-1892
Record ID
173-1892
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1800
Notes
embroidered, 1800s, Persian
Malzemeler ve teknikler
cotton yarn, silk thread, metal thread, spangles, weaving, embroidering, sewing
Fiziksel açıklama
Plain weave silk embroidered with couched metal thread and silk in straight stitches with a border of silk with applied spangles and corner units of cut voided silk velvet and metal thread, a facing of bias-cut woven silk and a backing of roller-printed plain weave cotton. There is an interlining of dark blue silk. The central panel has a blue ground [blue weft and cream? warp] divided by an ogival lattice formed by 'gold' sinuous leaves with a circle of spiralling metal thread at each junction. Each compartment contains a large sycamore shaped leaf in metal thread with a round pink flower head in the centre and 4 small green flower heads emerging from between the points of the leaf. The bottom line of the panel has incomplete motifs of a different design: a pair of small leaves drop from the lattice and are either side of a flower head with a semi-circle of 5 round petals around a small semi-circular centre of spiralling metal thread. Below this are two small pink leaves. The border of pink silk has been cut and re-used from something else: all the pieces except for 2 show details from a pattern of opposed undulating lines with small diamonds and with a long leafy sprig in the spaces. One section on the right hand side has no discernable pattern, just arcs and a wiggly line and one section on the left hand side has a flower on a long stem; this flower head has long drooping petals. The square corners sections have been cut from a purple velvet on a ribbed ground with a metal strip in the weft. Small serrated leaves form a diamond lattice with a tiny 4-petalled flower head at the junctions and a 6-petalled round flower head in each diamond. Facing: striped silk: narrow white and dark blue stripes. The white stripes contain a tiny pink flower and a sinuous line of blue leaves with pink and yellow details and the dark blue stripes contain an isolated motif of a red flower with yellow details. Backing: white cotton ground with parallel undulating red and blue stems with many small branches, leaves and flower heads. There are some slightly larger exotic blossoms but the motifs are on a small-scale. The predominant colours are red, purple, blue with dark green and yellow. Embroidery thread: 2S silk; pink, light pink, green, light green. Metal thread: silver-gilt strip close S-wound on a cream/dull yellow. The spangles are mainly silver-gilt with odd ones in green, pink and blue. Most are stitched in place but the coloured ones are held in place with a small piece of silver purl with a round profile.
