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: 238cm, Width: 204cm, Central panel length: 112.5cm, Central panel width: 121cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
159-1884
Record ID
159-1884
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1800
Notes
printed cotton, 1800s, Persian
Malzemeler ve teknikler
cotton yarn, weaving, sewing, resist printing, block printing.
Fiziksel açıklama
Resist and block printed machine woven cotton; two pieces of fabric printed and then sewn together. Backed with white cotton. There is one incomplete selvedge. Colours: red, blue, yellow faded to grey, mauve. The central panel with an off-white ground contains a roundel 36 cm in diameter with a multi-petalled red flower head and a 15-pointed blue star leading to alternate motifs consisting of a vase with a flowering plant or a blue cypress tree and a heart-shaped form. A narrow blue border frames this composition and in turn is surrounded by blue ogival pendants containing small floral motifs. There are two types of floral meander with a blue stem and exotic blossoms, predominantly red, framed a narrow band edged in blue containing lozenges with small floral motifs. This leads into a wider band bearing a blue stem meander and large and small flower heads similar to those in the main field. In the corners is a small diagonal vase and floral spray with a cypress tree. This frame continues with a yellow ground band containing a flower head; there are five versions of this flower head. [referred to as band a]. There are two long side panels with a blue and yellow ribbon-like meander containing small floral elements and entrapping large, exotic blossoms. This pattern goes up one side and down the other. Along the top and bottom are single botehs reserved in white containing a vase and cypress tree framed by two floral sprays. These alternate with a small cypress and vase motif with a broken link to a feather-like form. The botehs point to the centre and those in the top band face the opposite directions to those in the bottom . Everything is framed by a series of barrow borders, printed as one block. These include a repeat of band [a] edged either side by a small repeating pattern of arch forms and flower heads and cypress trees.
