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Title	Cover
Author	Unknown
Publication Date:	1600
Publication Place	Turkey (made) -
Subject	Stylized Flowers
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Length: 110cm, Width: 107.5cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	1017-1898
Record ID	1017-1898
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1600
Notes	From about the 1720s onwards Ottoman embroidery stopped copying woven designs and became a truly creative art form: new, naturalistic floral motifs were introduced and many of them were depicted in great detail. Some were allowed to sway and sweep across the fabric, some were stylised and many were enriched with metal thread. The colours were originally very bright but have often faded to pleasing pastel shades.
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Silk satin, embroidered with silk in atma (laid and couched with a couched line), split stitch and couched threads, and with metal threads couched in a basket weave pattern, padded couching and couched lines Silk Thread Metal Thread Weaving Embroidering Sewing
Fiziksel açıklama	Cover, silk satin embroidered with silk in atma, split stitch and couched threads and with metal threads couched in a basket weave pattern, padded couching and couched lines (outlines). Made form three pieces joined before being embroidered. Red satin ground with a border along four sides containing a floral meander with blue spkiy leaves and a small white flower. The field is decorated with four curling stems which almost form a complete circle - one in each corner. The bear whiteblossoms and blue spiky leaves and curl around a blue ragged flower. There is a relatively smal, round blossom in the centre of the cover, worked in metal thread.
Üslup	Ottoman

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Cover

Author Unknown

Publication Date 1600

Publication Place Turkey (made) -

Subject Stylized Flowers

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Length: 110cm, Width: 107.5cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 1017-1898

Record ID 1017-1898

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1600

Notes From about the 1720s onwards Ottoman embroidery stopped copying woven designs and became a truly creative art form: new, naturalistic floral motifs were introduced and many of them were depicted in great detail. Some were allowed to sway and sweep across the fabric, some were stylised and many were enriched with metal thread. The colours were originally very bright but have often faded to pleasing pastel shades.

Malzemeler ve teknikler Silk satin, embroidered with silk in atma (laid and couched with a couched line), split stitch and couched threads, and with metal threads couched in a basket weave pattern, padded couching and couched lines Silk Thread Metal Thread Weaving Embroidering Sewing

Fiziksel açıklama Cover, silk satin embroidered with silk in atma, split stitch and couched threads and with metal threads couched in a basket weave pattern, padded couching and couched lines (outlines). Made form three pieces joined before being embroidered. Red satin ground with a border along four sides containing a floral meander with blue spkiy leaves and a small white flower. The field is decorated with four curling stems which almost form a complete circle - one in each corner. The bear whiteblossoms and blue spiky leaves and curl around a blue ragged flower. There is a relatively smal, round blossom in the centre of the cover, worked in metal thread.

Üslup Ottoman