Cover
1800-1860 (made)
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Plain weave cotton, probably hand woven, embroidered with silk in straight stitches with pulled thread work and needleweaving; whitework.
This is largely undecorated except for a 4 cm wide border around the four sides, a central star medallion and 4 corner botehs with 2 other botehs in the centre of the two long sides. There is one selvedge.
The border is very fine with various narrow bands of straight stitches either side of three very fine needlewoven bands. The corner junctions have been skillfully but not perfectly aligned. The central medallion is an 8-pointed star of similar straight stitched bands arranged in diagonal strips for the points, and as a series of squares for the main body. No pulled thread work or needleweaving here or in the 6 inward pointing botehs. The decorative stitching is in chevrons.
Cotton thread: Z-spun
Embroidery Thread: white silk, 2S
This is largely undecorated except for a 4 cm wide border around the four sides, a central star medallion and 4 corner botehs with 2 other botehs in the centre of the two long sides. There is one selvedge.
The border is very fine with various narrow bands of straight stitches either side of three very fine needlewoven bands. The corner junctions have been skillfully but not perfectly aligned. The central medallion is an 8-pointed star of similar straight stitched bands arranged in diagonal strips for the points, and as a series of squares for the main body. No pulled thread work or needleweaving here or in the 6 inward pointing botehs. The decorative stitching is in chevrons.
Cotton thread: Z-spun
Embroidery Thread: white silk, 2S
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | cotton yarn, silk thread, weaving, embroidering, whitework. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile. Cover, white cotton with silk embroidery and pulled-thread openwork or whitework, Qajar Iran, 1800-1860 |
| Physical description | Plain weave cotton, probably hand woven, embroidered with silk in straight stitches with pulled thread work and needleweaving; whitework. This is largely undecorated except for a 4 cm wide border around the four sides, a central star medallion and 4 corner botehs with 2 other botehs in the centre of the two long sides. There is one selvedge. The border is very fine with various narrow bands of straight stitches either side of three very fine needlewoven bands. The corner junctions have been skillfully but not perfectly aligned. The central medallion is an 8-pointed star of similar straight stitched bands arranged in diagonal strips for the points, and as a series of squares for the main body. No pulled thread work or needleweaving here or in the 6 inward pointing botehs. The decorative stitching is in chevrons. Cotton thread: Z-spun Embroidery Thread: white silk, 2S |
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| Object history | Purchased at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 926-1869 |
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| Record created | June 3, 2008 |
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