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Title	Cover
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: 67cm, Width: 79cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	313-1884
Record ID	313-1884
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1800
Notes	brocaded silk, 1800s, Persian
Malzemeler ve teknikler	silk thread, metal thread, cotton yarn, weaving, brocading, roller printing, sewing.
Fiziksel açıklama	woven and brocaded silk and metal thread, plain weave ground., faced with bias cut plain weave silk and backed with roller printed cotton. Warp: white silk Weft: white silk Metal thread: silver-gilt strip open S-wound on Z-twist yellow silk Cream ground with an isolated flowering plant motif repeated in different colourways. The motif includes leaves, 2 irises, an blossom and a bud. The various colour combinations are: [1] red and dark brown flower heads with green leaves [2] red and light brown flower heads with green leaves, all edged with metal thread The bottom row has base leaves in red or light grey and the motif is approximately 0.5 cm smaller than the other motifs in the textile. The other base leaves are alternately dark or light brown with reverse highlights ie. dark brown with red highlights. The bottom three rows are NOT offset and all flowering plants bend to the left. The other seven rows ARE offset and each row points in the alternate direction. The middle 5 rows have the expected half motif missing at one or other side. Above the lower three rows the dark brown motifs have dark brown roots while the alternate light brown motifs have light brown roots. There are numerous weaving faults and it seems to have been woven on a loom with a Jacquard mechanism. The facing is purple silk, bias cut plain weave. The backing is plain weave cotton roller-printed, two pieces joined together. The white ground has a pattern of an ovoid shape containing a floral spray in two shades of red with green leaves and orange details. Two flowering branches in the same colouring emerge from the base of the ovals and are interrupted by a white circle enclosing a geometric form in red and orange on a dark brown ground. The whole ground is covered with very small black and white triangles.

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Cover

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: 67cm, Width: 79cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 313-1884

Record ID 313-1884

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1800

Notes brocaded silk, 1800s, Persian

Malzemeler ve teknikler silk thread, metal thread, cotton yarn, weaving, brocading, roller printing, sewing.

Fiziksel açıklama woven and brocaded silk and metal thread, plain weave ground., faced with bias cut plain weave silk and backed with roller printed cotton. Warp: white silk Weft: white silk Metal thread: silver-gilt strip open S-wound on Z-twist yellow silk Cream ground with an isolated flowering plant motif repeated in different colourways. The motif includes leaves, 2 irises, an blossom and a bud. The various colour combinations are: [1] red and dark brown flower heads with green leaves [2] red and light brown flower heads with green leaves, all edged with metal thread The bottom row has base leaves in red or light grey and the motif is approximately 0.5 cm smaller than the other motifs in the textile. The other base leaves are alternately dark or light brown with reverse highlights ie. dark brown with red highlights. The bottom three rows are NOT offset and all flowering plants bend to the left. The other seven rows ARE offset and each row points in the alternate direction. The middle 5 rows have the expected half motif missing at one or other side. Above the lower three rows the dark brown motifs have dark brown roots while the alternate light brown motifs have light brown roots. There are numerous weaving faults and it seems to have been woven on a loom with a Jacquard mechanism. The facing is purple silk, bias cut plain weave. The backing is plain weave cotton roller-printed, two pieces joined together. The white ground has a pattern of an ovoid shape containing a floral spray in two shades of red with green leaves and orange details. Two flowering branches in the same colouring emerge from the base of the ovals and are interrupted by a white circle enclosing a geometric form in red and orange on a dark brown ground. The whole ground is covered with very small black and white triangles.