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: 118cm, Width: 94.5cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
1025-1898
Record ID
1025-1898
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1800
Notes
embroidered and quilted, 1800s, Persian
Sample Text
Note ink on parchment sewn onto the backing: 'No 21 Persian cover - orange coloured ground of quilted stuff, embroidered all over in various colours. Old.'
Malzemeler ve teknikler
cotton yarn, silk thread, metal thread, weaving, embroidering, quilting, sewing.
Fiziksel açıklama
Cover, silk and cotton satin embroidered with silk in running, straight and stem stitches and couched metal thread, padded and quilted, backed with resist and block printed cotton. Orange satin, very worn; two pieces joined vertically before being embroidered. There is a border on 4 sides with a fine green meander with a red carnation with a metal thread centre and a pair of serrated leaves alternating with a diagonal white blossom. The ground is quilted with yellow silk into a diamond shaped lattice. Inner and outer border with a light green meander with red, sometimes purple, trefoil flowers. There is a lobed roundel in the centre formed by a green band with red spots. There is a central red and purple flower with a metal thread centre. This is enclosed within an 8-pointed green star which links 4red and purple flowers and 4 white flowers in profile. There is a small red tree at the compass points together with a pair of white birds. There are 4 more birds around the edge of the roundel. A quarter of the roundel is in each corner. The rest of the ground is decorated with random floral sprigs, predominantly red flowers bending to the left, but there are smaller sprigs with 3 blue and white flowers. The flowers are upright in the lower half, and downward pointing in the upper half. The ground is quilted in the diamond pattern. The quilting and embroidery is worked through a layer of fibres and through a plain weave white cotton fabric. Threads: red sometimes replaced with purple, light green, pink, light orange, white, blue/green and dark brown. Metal Thread: silver stripe close S-wound on white silk core. Backing: pieced; blue ground with close off-set rows of a white and brown flower on a black stem with green leaves. There are 3 patches of a different printed cotton with a blue ground with red, white and yellow.
