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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: 144cm, Width: 103cm, Central panel length: 116cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	2336-1876
Record ID	2336-1876
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1800
Notes	printed cotton, 1800-1860, Persian
Malzemeler ve teknikler	cotton yarn, weaving, dyeing, block printing.
Fiziksel açıklama	resist dyed, block printed, plain weave, hand-woven cotton. Both selvedges present. Red ground with central panel patterned with small, simple blue and white botehs arranged in off-set rows, each row facing an alternate direction. Printing started at the bottom and the uppermost row is incomplete. This panel is framed by an inner border with a white and yellow ground decorated with flower heads bracketed by pairs of leaves. The widest border contains a line of fat inward-facing botehs pointing in a clockwise direction, each with a white ground infilled with a flowering spray in three versions. The field is covered with a red fan-like pattern. The inner border interrupts the main border to form a square at each corner. These squares contain a diagonal tear-drop shape on the red fan-like pattern and each tear-drop has the same type of infill as the fat botehs. The outer border is a wider version of the yellow and white inner border. The whole is framed by an plain red border. Colours: red, blue, yellow, white, black.

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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: 144cm, Width: 103cm, Central panel length: 116cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 2336-1876

Record ID 2336-1876

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1800

Notes printed cotton, 1800-1860, Persian

Malzemeler ve teknikler cotton yarn, weaving, dyeing, block printing.

Fiziksel açıklama resist dyed, block printed, plain weave, hand-woven cotton. Both selvedges present. Red ground with central panel patterned with small, simple blue and white botehs arranged in off-set rows, each row facing an alternate direction. Printing started at the bottom and the uppermost row is incomplete. This panel is framed by an inner border with a white and yellow ground decorated with flower heads bracketed by pairs of leaves. The widest border contains a line of fat inward-facing botehs pointing in a clockwise direction, each with a white ground infilled with a flowering spray in three versions. The field is covered with a red fan-like pattern. The inner border interrupts the main border to form a square at each corner. These squares contain a diagonal tear-drop shape on the red fan-like pattern and each tear-drop has the same type of infill as the fat botehs. The outer border is a wider version of the yellow and white inner border. The whole is framed by an plain red border. Colours: red, blue, yellow, white, black.