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Saddle cover

Title	Saddle cover
Author	Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)
Publication Date:	1850
Publication Place	Iran (made) -
Subject	Equestrian Equipment Transport
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Maximum length: 70cm, Maximum width: 85cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	790-1876
Record ID	790-1876
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1850
Notes	embroidered velvet, 1850c, Persian
Sample Text	Note paper label attached by thread, printed 'No. 2/1663 Reg. 11/12/85 On loan from S&A Department.'
Malzemeler ve teknikler	cotton yarn, silk thread, metal thread, weaving, embroidering, sewing.
Fiziksel açıklama	Silk velvet embroidered with couched metal thread and silk in straight stitches, interlined with stiffened plain weave cotton and backed with paper; the embroidery has been worked through all the layers. Formed of a rounded rectangle with a partial semi-circular addition. The velvet has been pieced and includes one selvedge with green and yellow warp threads. At the central edge of the semi-circular panel there is evidence of the end of a loom piece: there are two rows of black silk and two or more of white silk. The velvet was originally glued onto the interlining. The rounded rectangle is decorated with a banding of couched rosettes in silver metal thread; this is edged either side with a band of silver thread laid over the seams. A curved arch form with simple trefoil shapes, again in silver thread, interrupts this border on both side sections but the top section is left undecorated. The central space is decorated with a long, waisted V-shape edged in silver metal thread and infilled with a silver-gilt meander. The partial semi-circular addition is similarly decorated over the seams with a thick leafy silver stem meander emerging from a centrally placed 'lotus' rosette framed in silver-gilt. The meander carries branches, leaves, palmettes and rosettes in silver-gilt with additional details in pink, purple, green and blue silk in straight stitches. A bird is shown in profile perched on the meander either side. Despite all this, the design is very flat and lifeless. Embroidery Thread: Silk, 2S. Metal Thread: [1] silver strip close S-wound on white silk thread; [2] silver-gilt strip close S-wound on beige silk. Interlining: stiffened cotton. Backing: thick paper, beige in tone.

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Saddle cover

Author Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)

Publication Date 1850

Publication Place Iran (made) -

Subject Equestrian Equipment Transport

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Maximum length: 70cm, Maximum width: 85cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 790-1876

Record ID 790-1876

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1850

Notes embroidered velvet, 1850c, Persian

Sample Text Note paper label attached by thread, printed 'No. 2/1663 Reg. 11/12/85 On loan from S&A Department.'

Malzemeler ve teknikler cotton yarn, silk thread, metal thread, weaving, embroidering, sewing.

Fiziksel açıklama Silk velvet embroidered with couched metal thread and silk in straight stitches, interlined with stiffened plain weave cotton and backed with paper; the embroidery has been worked through all the layers. Formed of a rounded rectangle with a partial semi-circular addition. The velvet has been pieced and includes one selvedge with green and yellow warp threads. At the central edge of the semi-circular panel there is evidence of the end of a loom piece: there are two rows of black silk and two or more of white silk. The velvet was originally glued onto the interlining. The rounded rectangle is decorated with a banding of couched rosettes in silver metal thread; this is edged either side with a band of silver thread laid over the seams. A curved arch form with simple trefoil shapes, again in silver thread, interrupts this border on both side sections but the top section is left undecorated. The central space is decorated with a long, waisted V-shape edged in silver metal thread and infilled with a silver-gilt meander. The partial semi-circular addition is similarly decorated over the seams with a thick leafy silver stem meander emerging from a centrally placed 'lotus' rosette framed in silver-gilt. The meander carries branches, leaves, palmettes and rosettes in silver-gilt with additional details in pink, purple, green and blue silk in straight stitches. A bird is shown in profile perched on the meander either side. Despite all this, the design is very flat and lifeless. Embroidery Thread: Silk, 2S. Metal Thread: [1] silver strip close S-wound on white silk thread; [2] silver-gilt strip close S-wound on beige silk. Interlining: stiffened cotton. Backing: thick paper, beige in tone.