Not currently on display at the V&A

Dress Fabric

1800-1875 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Unknown (designed and made by)
Place of origin
Iran (made)

block printed, plain weave cotton, probably machine woven, glazed
Cream ground with isolated floral sprays in boteh form, pointing in alternate directions in off-set rows in green, yellow, blue, red and purple. There are at least three different boteh variations in each row.


Object details

Category
Textiles
Object type
Dress fabric
Materials and techniques
cotton yarn, weaving, block printing, glazing.
Brief description
1800s, Persian
Physical description
block printed, plain weave cotton, probably machine woven, glazed
Cream ground with isolated floral sprays in boteh form, pointing in alternate directions in off-set rows in green, yellow, blue, red and purple. There are at least three different boteh variations in each row.
Dimensions
  • Maximum length: 10.5cm
  • Maximum width: 12cm
Irregular rectangle in shape
Object history
Donated to the V&A by Robert Murdoch Smith in 1883, together with a batch of sixty-four other printed cotton specimens from Isfahan, and four carpet fragments: "The [cottons] I got from the calico printers at Ispahan, most of them at least. I have a good many specimens of <i>old</i> printing."
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
1065:51-1883

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Record createdMarch 5, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O146729/dress-fabric-unknown/
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