Author
Unknown (made) Unknown (designed and made by)
Publication Date
1770
Publication Place
Azerbaijan (made) Iran (made) Iran (made) -
Subject
Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Height: 456mm, Width: 464mm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
258-1884
Record ID
258-1884
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1770
Notes
Middle East, Textile; Panel, silk-embroidered cotton with woven silk borders, both cut down from larger textiles, packed design of octagons, cartouches and crosses, Azerbaijan or NW Iran, possibly 1770-1800
Sample Text
Note An ink mark reading 'al 20' on the back.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Cotton yarn, silk thread, weaving, embroidering, sewing Cotton Yarn Silk Thread Weaving Embroidery Sewing
Fiziksel açıklama
Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in surface darning on the diagonal and cross stitch and pulled thread work, backed with plain weave cotton with a facing of silk satin and with an applied border of woven silk. There is a plain weave cotton inter-lining. White silk has been used to overcast a pulled thread ground around two motifs in alternate rows: [1] A faded pink octagon infilled with a light blue eight-pointed star, alternating with a dark blue horizontal cartouche. [2] A yellow four-pointed star form with a light blue and beige octagonal centre, alternating with a dark blue vertical cartouche. Scattered angular forms are in between these motifs. All were originally outlined in black cross stitch. The border is bias-cut woven silk; this would have been woven as a piece of diagonally striped fabric, and would have been cut to produce bias-cut borders. It is decorated with a thin black meander, bearing pink roses or blue star flowers and either light green parakeets or white doves. Colours (Embroidery threads, 2S silk): white, black, red, pink, yellow, beige, light blue, light turquoise, dark blue, mid-blue [two shades]; (Backing): pink cotton; (Facing): light blue bias-cut satin.
Üslup
Caucasian
