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
Maximum length: 46cm, Maximum width: 95cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
80-1877
Record ID
80-1877
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1800
Notes
Embroidered head scarf, 1800-1870, Persian.
İlişki
Caspar Purdon Clarke
Malzemeler ve teknikler
cotton yarn, silk thread, metal thread, weaving, printing, embroidering, sewing
Fiziksel açıklama
Resist dyed and printed plain weave cotton embroidered with metal thread in chain stitch or tambour work backed with a resist dyed and printed plain weave cotton, faced with plain weave silk, with two silk and metal thread ties. This triangular scarf has been cut from a 19th century large, square Ottoman Turkish printed handkerchief, because of the colour of the ground, this handkerchief might possibly be the the sort associated with snuff-taking. The main fabric is a fine cotton printed with a narrow border down two sides showing a landscape of small houses among trees in between pink/mauve lobed lozenges: blue, green, white and pink predominate. The field is olive brown and is decorated with lines of interlocking incomplete ovoids forming a highly ornate 'chain' with pendant fruits and leaves in predominantly blue-green, yellow, pink, orange and grey. All the outlines of this pattern and the borders have been embellished with metal thread embroidered in chain stitch or tambour. In one corner there is part of a different pattern: it has a white ground with an incomplete floral pattern in pinks, yellow and light blue. The ties are striped silk with red alternating with a wide band of metal thread 0- tarnished silver wound around yellow silk. The weft is red silk. The stripes are separated by a narrow stripe of white and blue in a twill pattern. Metal Thread: silver strip close Z-wound on white silk core; along the edges of the border the metal thread is close Z-wound on a yellow silk core. Backing: pieced; purple ground with a small tri-sprigged stem in green, white and red arranged in offset rows. Facing: bias cut; orange/yellow silk
Üretim
The printed textile is Ottoman Turkish
