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Title	Border
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: 21cm, Width: 4cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	T.21:128-1955
Record ID	T.21:128-1955
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1800
Notes	Border of tapestry woven wool twill, Iran, 1800-1899
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Tapestry woven wool
Fiziksel açıklama	Border of tapestry woven wool twill. This is probably the border from a cover or shawl. There is a stripe, 2.5 cm wide, with a white ground bearing a single delicate dark blue meander with a series of different leaf forms also in blue, and numerous buds, flowers and blossoms, all densely packed. The predominant colours of which are light blue, red and pink. This stripe is edged either side by a narrow composite band [edged in white and black] of a white ground containing small light blue lozenges with a red mark top and bottom. Warp: white wool. Weft: pink, black, dark pink, dark blue, light blue and yellow wool, all indeterminable twist and green, white and red wool, all S-twist.

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Border

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: 21cm, Width: 4cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID T.21:128-1955

Record ID T.21:128-1955

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1800

Notes Border of tapestry woven wool twill, Iran, 1800-1899

Malzemeler ve teknikler Tapestry woven wool

Fiziksel açıklama Border of tapestry woven wool twill. This is probably the border from a cover or shawl. There is a stripe, 2.5 cm wide, with a white ground bearing a single delicate dark blue meander with a series of different leaf forms also in blue, and numerous buds, flowers and blossoms, all densely packed. The predominant colours of which are light blue, red and pink. This stripe is edged either side by a narrow composite band [edged in white and black] of a white ground containing small light blue lozenges with a red mark top and bottom. Warp: white wool. Weft: pink, black, dark pink, dark blue, light blue and yellow wool, all indeterminable twist and green, white and red wool, all S-twist.