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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: 91.5cm, Width: 66.5cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	855-1897
Record ID	855-1897
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1800
Notes	embroidered, 1800s, Persian
Malzemeler ve teknikler	silk thread, metal thread, cotton yarn, weaving, embroidering, sewing.
Fiziksel açıklama	Plain weave silk embroidered with couched metal thread and silk in flat stitch, faced with bias-cut plain weave silk and backed with plain weave cotton. Pale turquoise silk ground with an upright rectangular central panel decorated with a rather sparse and rigid pattern of dark stems, tulips and stylised flowers and leaves. The under drawing is very clear. The stems form part of a lattice; they are crudely worked with black silk around which silver strip has been open [loosely] S-wound. The flowers and leaves are worked with: [1] silver strip open S-wound around a white silk core [2] silver-gilt strip open S-wound around a yellow silk core [3] laid and couched silk thread in which the laid silk is floss [ie. untwisted] and the couched thread is 2S. The colours are: light pink, pink, blue, cream, brown and a greenish-brown. Outlines are in laid and couched black silk. Inner and outer borders: a meander with a split leaf in silver strip on a white silk core and a split leaf in silver strip on a pink silk core either side of a 4-petalled flower head in either brown or very light blue silk, laid and couched with a spiral of metal thread in the centre. Two pink and silver threads have been couched to form a fine border either side. Main border: The same pink and silver threads have been used to create diagonal bands containing the same pattern as the inner and outer borders. Two of these bands meet in the centre of each side to form a triangle. Between these bands there is a single, large serrated leaf, alternately silver on white or silver on light yellow. Coloured silk details are laid and couched in brown, white, light pink, light blue, light yellow with black stems and outlines. Note: the 'light blue' silk is purple on the reverse side. Facing: bias-cut striped silk plain weave in light orange, pink, light pink, light purple. Backing: plain weave light orange cotton; undecorated. There are four green silk twill tabs have been attached along one edge. The same sort of twill has been used to attach tabs to 945-1889 and so was presumably done in the museum for display purposes.

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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: 91.5cm, Width: 66.5cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 855-1897

Record ID 855-1897

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1800

Notes embroidered, 1800s, Persian

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

Fiziksel açıklama Plain weave silk embroidered with couched metal thread and silk in flat stitch, faced with bias-cut plain weave silk and backed with plain weave cotton. Pale turquoise silk ground with an upright rectangular central panel decorated with a rather sparse and rigid pattern of dark stems, tulips and stylised flowers and leaves. The under drawing is very clear. The stems form part of a lattice; they are crudely worked with black silk around which silver strip has been open [loosely] S-wound. The flowers and leaves are worked with: [1] silver strip open S-wound around a white silk core [2] silver-gilt strip open S-wound around a yellow silk core [3] laid and couched silk thread in which the laid silk is floss [ie. untwisted] and the couched thread is 2S. The colours are: light pink, pink, blue, cream, brown and a greenish-brown. Outlines are in laid and couched black silk. Inner and outer borders: a meander with a split leaf in silver strip on a white silk core and a split leaf in silver strip on a pink silk core either side of a 4-petalled flower head in either brown or very light blue silk, laid and couched with a spiral of metal thread in the centre. Two pink and silver threads have been couched to form a fine border either side. Main border: The same pink and silver threads have been used to create diagonal bands containing the same pattern as the inner and outer borders. Two of these bands meet in the centre of each side to form a triangle. Between these bands there is a single, large serrated leaf, alternately silver on white or silver on light yellow. Coloured silk details are laid and couched in brown, white, light pink, light blue, light yellow with black stems and outlines. Note: the 'light blue' silk is purple on the reverse side. Facing: bias-cut striped silk plain weave in light orange, pink, light pink, light purple. Backing: plain weave light orange cotton; undecorated. There are four green silk twill tabs have been attached along one edge. The same sort of twill has been used to attach tabs to 945-1889 and so was presumably done in the museum for display purposes.