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: 53cm, One selvedge width: 49cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
2364-1876
Record ID
2364-1876
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1800
Notes
embroidered, 1800s, Persian; Whitework
Malzemeler ve teknikler
cotton yarn, silk thread, weaving, embroidering, whitework
Fiziksel açıklama
Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in straight stitches and needleweaving and silk and metal thread in pulled thread work; whitework Three sides have been rolled and stitched in place. Rather loose embroidery. The outer edge is worked with reciprocal diamond heads. There is a band of loose needleweaving either side of a wide border divided into lines of 4 squares loosely worked in pulled thread: a block of 4 lines in silk followed by 2 using metal thread - this arrangement is lost in the corners and is in blocks of 3 lines in silk down one side. There is a band of diagonal lines around the central rectangle. There are 2 patterns but the arrangement is irregular: a wider band of diamonds in metal thread, and lines of a closed mesh in either silk or metal thread. The central panel has three borders worked in silk, but each does not necessarily go round all 4 sides. There are 4 corner squares inside in metal thread edged with reciprocal diamond heads. The rest of the ground is undecorated. Cotton thread: Z-spun Embroidery Thread: white silk; 2S, very regular twist Metal Thread: silver-gilt strip open S-wound on a white silk core.
