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Textile panel

Title	Textile panel
Author	Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)
Publication Date:	1770
Publication Place	Azerbaijan (made) Iran (made) Iran (made) -
Subject	Textiles
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Length: 54cm, Width: 53cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	259-1884
Record ID	259-1884
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1770
Notes	Middle East, Textile; Panel, silk-embroidered cotton, packed design of overlapping crosses and squares, Azerbaijan or NW Iran, 1770-1830
Malzemeler ve teknikler	cotton yarn, silk thread, weaving, embroidering, sewing.
Fiziksel açıklama	Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in darning stitch, over two and under two threads, backed and faced with plain weave glazed cotton. Embroidery threads: 2S silk; black, white, yellow, light blue, pink [faded], light pink, light brown, light green. Loosely woven cotton fabric forming the background to the coloured embroidery. Small geometric motifs combined to form a diamond grid. The largest motif is a 4-pointed star, either brown with an inner yellow star and central blue diamond or green, brown and yellow. These motifs alternate in off-set rows. In between are pairs of small pink diamonds and a white and black square. The squares and pink diamonds form the grid and the stars fill the diamond shaped spaces. There is a border formed by repeating part of the main pattern. Backing: blue glazed cotton. Facing: bias-cut, blue glazed cotton.
Üslup	Caucasian

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Textile panel

Author Unknown Unknown (designed and made by)

Publication Date 1770

Publication Place Azerbaijan (made) Iran (made) Iran (made) -

Subject Textiles

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Length: 54cm, Width: 53cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 259-1884

Record ID 259-1884

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1770

Notes Middle East, Textile; Panel, silk-embroidered cotton, packed design of overlapping crosses and squares, Azerbaijan or NW Iran, 1770-1830

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

Fiziksel açıklama Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in darning stitch, over two and under two threads, backed and faced with plain weave glazed cotton. Embroidery threads: 2S silk; black, white, yellow, light blue, pink [faded], light pink, light brown, light green. Loosely woven cotton fabric forming the background to the coloured embroidery. Small geometric motifs combined to form a diamond grid. The largest motif is a 4-pointed star, either brown with an inner yellow star and central blue diamond or green, brown and yellow. These motifs alternate in off-set rows. In between are pairs of small pink diamonds and a white and black square. The squares and pink diamonds form the grid and the stars fill the diamond shaped spaces. There is a border formed by repeating part of the main pattern. Backing: blue glazed cotton. Facing: bias-cut, blue glazed cotton.

Üslup Caucasian