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: 134.5cm, Width: 95.5cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
90-1889
Record ID
90-1889
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1800
Notes
printed cotton, 1800s, Persian
Sample Text
Note Top right hand corner, on the back, an ink lozenge containing the letter 'Z' and an ink number '8886' or possibly '9888'.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
cotton yarn, dyeing, block printing, roller printing, painting, sewing
Fiziksel açıklama
resist dyed, block printed and painted, fine plain weave cotton, probably hand-woven backed with roller printing cotton and faced with bias-cut cotton. In the middle is a red rosette with a blue centre on a white ground surrounded by a delicate circular band of blue cypress trees and red 3-petalled flowers on a light yellow ground. Curving blue stems form an inner circle of eight white ground heart-shaped segments each containing two red and 1 mauve flower and an outer circle of larger but similar segments with a light yellow ground. Sections of these outer patterns are repeated in each corner of the central panel. The central decoration is printed on top of a blue stemmed meander repeated one and half times on a white ground. It bears exotic blossoms and carnations and pomegranates and spotted pod-like leaves. The central field is framed by two narrow bands extended to form a square box in each of the outermost corners. The bands are: [a] a reciprocal trefoil in blue and white [b] a meander of blue leaves with an infill of a simple 4-petalled rosette in red and mauve on a light yellow ground. The corner boxes contain a vase with a floral spray pointing inwards. There is a wide band from these four boxes, running along the sides and the top and bottom, patterned with a blue leafy meander bearing similar but larger exotic blossoms as in the main field. This is edged with a repeat of the [a] and [b] borders. The backing is roller printed on a cream ground with a repeating pattern of small flower heads in 2 shades of red arranged in off-set rows. The pieces of fabric have been sewn together. The facing is bias-cut dark blue plain weave cotton. Colours: two shades of red, blue, yellow, mauve, black.
