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Sash

Title	Sash
Author	Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)
Publication Date:	1840
Publication Place	Iran (made) -
Subject	Textiles
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Length: 382cm, Including fringe length: 398cm, Width: 52.5cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	928-1889
Record ID	928-1889
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1840
Notes	Middle East, Textile; woven silk, 1700s, Persian
Malzemeler ve teknikler	silk thread, metal thread, weaving
Fiziksel açıklama	Woven silk and metal thread with added silk fringe. The field has a faded red ground with small-scale, dense offset rows of a tree, or are they leaves?, in metal thread [silver strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core]. There is a border down the sides with a yellow, metal thread, ground with a slightly indistinct meander linking round red flowers, diagonal light blue star-like flowers, purple irises and other red-pink flowers. At the top and the bottom of the central part of the sash this border is interrupted by a horizontal band using similar motifs but with no meandering stem. This horizontal border re-appears along the top and bottom of the end border panels. These end panels have the same [worn] metal thread ground. There are four floral arrangements: a blue and white striped shallow dish balanced on a mound holds a pair of green leaves with red and with white flowerheads above which are more leaves and then red blossoms surrounding a white lobed medallion containing 3 purple flowers. This motif at the left hand side of the textile is squashed. There is an added yellow silk fringe along the ends.

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Sash

Author Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)

Publication Date 1840

Publication Place Iran (made) -

Subject Textiles

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Length: 382cm, Including fringe length: 398cm, Width: 52.5cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 928-1889

Record ID 928-1889

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1840

Notes Middle East, Textile; woven silk, 1700s, Persian

Malzemeler ve teknikler silk thread, metal thread, weaving

Fiziksel açıklama Woven silk and metal thread with added silk fringe. The field has a faded red ground with small-scale, dense offset rows of a tree, or are they leaves?, in metal thread [silver strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core]. There is a border down the sides with a yellow, metal thread, ground with a slightly indistinct meander linking round red flowers, diagonal light blue star-like flowers, purple irises and other red-pink flowers. At the top and the bottom of the central part of the sash this border is interrupted by a horizontal band using similar motifs but with no meandering stem. This horizontal border re-appears along the top and bottom of the end border panels. These end panels have the same [worn] metal thread ground. There are four floral arrangements: a blue and white striped shallow dish balanced on a mound holds a pair of green leaves with red and with white flowerheads above which are more leaves and then red blossoms surrounding a white lobed medallion containing 3 purple flowers. This motif at the left hand side of the textile is squashed. There is an added yellow silk fringe along the ends.