Author
Unknown
Publication Date
1850
Publication Place
Turkey (made) -
Subject
Stylized Flowers
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Excluding fringe length: 119cm, Width: 38.5cm, Length: 38in, Width: 14in
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
4168-1856
Record ID
4168-1856
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1850
Notes
At the end of the 18th century embroidery designs began to develop into rigid and heavily stylised borders for towels and napkins. The colours of 18th and 19th century embroideries were originally very bright but many have faded to pleasing pastel shades; often great quantities of metal thread were used. Napkins were mainly used to clean fingers during meals, but were also used as decoration and as covers. Their designs were consistently inventive.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Embroidered linen with silk, and metal thread Linen Silk Thread Metal Thread Weaving Embroidering
Fiziksel açıklama
Towel or sash of linen embroidered with silk in double darning and double running in a line and with metal thread in satin stitch and double running in a line. The decoration at either end consists of three circular arrangements with a central star-like flower worked in metal thread surrounded by three curving sprays of leaves and pink and blue blossoms.
Üretim
Made in the 'Turkish Archipelago', islands in the Aegean Sea which reverted to Greece
Üslup
Ottoman
