Author
Unknown (made) Unknown (designed and made by)
Publication Date
1750
Publication Place
Iran (made) Azerbaijan (made) Iran (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 50.5cm, Width: 50.5cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
127-1901
Record ID
127-1901
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1750
Notes
Middle East, Textile; Panel, silk-embroidered cotton, packed design of star-medallions, yellow stars and light blue diamonds on cream ground, Azerbaijan or NW Iran, 1750-1825
Malzemeler ve teknikler
cotton yarn, silk thread, weaving, embroidering, sewing
Fiziksel açıklama
Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in surface darning, surface darning on the diagonal and running stitch, backed with silk faced with bias-cut cotton. Displayed and analysed under glass. White ground with slightly diagonal rows in which a lobed mushroom lozenge containing a light blue octagon and pink swastika and four yellow 'eaves', alternating with a horizontal light blue lozenge containing a pink Z-motif. On the left hand side one of these lozenges has a green and one has a pink ground with a yellow z-motif. The other row has a yellow 8-pointed star with 4 sperm-like attachments alternating with a vertical blue lozenge and pink Z-motif. The border might have a light green ground and contains a yellow diagonal leaf-shaped motif either side of a pink Y-motif which alternates direction. Threads: 2S silk: light blue, mushroom, pink, yellow, light green, black and white. The outlines are worked in blocks in black running stitch. Backing: said to be purple silk Facing: light blue cotton with a fine dark blue check.
Üslup
Caucasian
