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Dress fabric

Title	Dress fabric
Author	Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)
Publication Date:	1780
Publication Place	Iran (made) -
Subject	Textiles
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Length: 232cm, Selvedge to selvedge width: 71cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	555-1903
Record ID	555-1903
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1780
Notes	brocaded, 1790-1830, Persian
Malzemeler ve teknikler	silk thread, metal thread, weaving.
Fiziksel açıklama	Woven silk brocaded with silk and metal thread. Red ground [faded] which seems to have floss silk weft and a much finer warp. Brocaded with light blue, blue, green and light brown floss silk and with two types of metal thread: [1] silver strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core; [2] silver strip open S-wound on a white silk core. The pattern is a half-drop repeat. One row of fat silver bushes with details in light brown and light blue silk or in blue and light blue silk. One row of thin cypress trees in gold with cone-like segments in the centre brocaded in blue silk. Between each of the cypresses is a pair of 'clouds'.

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Dress fabric

Author Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)

Publication Date 1780

Publication Place Iran (made) -

Subject Textiles

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Length: 232cm, Selvedge to selvedge width: 71cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 555-1903

Record ID 555-1903

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1780

Notes brocaded, 1790-1830, Persian

Malzemeler ve teknikler silk thread, metal thread, weaving.

Fiziksel açıklama Woven silk brocaded with silk and metal thread. Red ground [faded] which seems to have floss silk weft and a much finer warp. Brocaded with light blue, blue, green and light brown floss silk and with two types of metal thread: [1] silver strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core; [2] silver strip open S-wound on a white silk core. The pattern is a half-drop repeat. One row of fat silver bushes with details in light brown and light blue silk or in blue and light blue silk. One row of thin cypress trees in gold with cone-like segments in the centre brocaded in blue silk. Between each of the cypresses is a pair of 'clouds'.