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: 29cm, Width: 32cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
1349-1899
Record ID
1349-1899
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1800
Notes
Middle East, Textile; woven silk, 1800s, Persian
Malzemeler ve teknikler
silk thread, metal thread, weaving, brocading
Fiziksel açıklama
Woven and brocaded silk and metal thread Warp: blue silk, pink silk, Z-twist Weft: red and white silk Metal thread: silver-gilt strip open S-wound on light yellow silk core. Made up from ???? pieces. Dark blue ground with an overall pattern of long, narrow lozenges formed by two simple serrated leaves in white. The lozenges are 13 cm from the centre of one rosette to the centre of the next, and 12.5 cm wide. The junctions of the lozenges are embellished with geometric forms which combine a square either in red or white and a lobed cross in red. Inside the square is a small central 4-petalled rosette in red highlighted with blue, from which emerge 8 leafy fronds in metal thread. Inside the long lozenge is an overall pattern of flowering stems and tendrils emerging from each of the lobed junction motifs again in metal thread with red details. See 20-1903 for similar textile.
