Sash Border
1800-1880 (made)
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Brocaded silk and metal thread.
The border is dominated by a band of four 8-pointed stars, each made of outward facing floral motifs. There are six half-stars and four quarter stars in the corners. Between these are large X-motifs which create a disjointed diamond shaped grid on the red/pink ground. The X-motifs are woven with a chequered pattern using metal thread.
Metal Thread: silver strip open S-wound on a white silk core. One of the stars is woven completely with dark blue silk; the others have half their pattern woven with beige silk.
There are other irregularities in the colouring with a light blue band at the bottom of the main panel changed to darker blue.
The border is woven in red/pink silk and metal thread with a bold pattern of pairs of silver split palmettes, alternately inward and outward facing on a red/pink ground. There is a very narrow band of reciprocal brown and silver trefoils.
Materials and Techniques: silk thread, metal thread, weaving
The border is dominated by a band of four 8-pointed stars, each made of outward facing floral motifs. There are six half-stars and four quarter stars in the corners. Between these are large X-motifs which create a disjointed diamond shaped grid on the red/pink ground. The X-motifs are woven with a chequered pattern using metal thread.
Metal Thread: silver strip open S-wound on a white silk core. One of the stars is woven completely with dark blue silk; the others have half their pattern woven with beige silk.
There are other irregularities in the colouring with a light blue band at the bottom of the main panel changed to darker blue.
The border is woven in red/pink silk and metal thread with a bold pattern of pairs of silver split palmettes, alternately inward and outward facing on a red/pink ground. There is a very narrow band of reciprocal brown and silver trefoils.
Materials and Techniques: silk thread, metal thread, weaving
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | silk thread, metal thread, weaving |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile; woven silk, 1700s, Persian |
| Physical description | Brocaded silk and metal thread. The border is dominated by a band of four 8-pointed stars, each made of outward facing floral motifs. There are six half-stars and four quarter stars in the corners. Between these are large X-motifs which create a disjointed diamond shaped grid on the red/pink ground. The X-motifs are woven with a chequered pattern using metal thread. Metal Thread: silver strip open S-wound on a white silk core. One of the stars is woven completely with dark blue silk; the others have half their pattern woven with beige silk. There are other irregularities in the colouring with a light blue band at the bottom of the main panel changed to darker blue. The border is woven in red/pink silk and metal thread with a bold pattern of pairs of silver split palmettes, alternately inward and outward facing on a red/pink ground. There is a very narrow band of reciprocal brown and silver trefoils. Materials and Techniques: silk thread, metal thread, weaving |
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| Production | probably Russia |
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| Accession number | 937-1886 |
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| Record created | May 11, 2009 |
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