Textile Panel
1770-1800 (made)
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Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in surface darning on the diagonal and cross stitch and pulled thread work, backed with plain weave cotton with a facing of silk satin and with an applied border of woven silk. There is a plain weave cotton inter-lining.
White silk has been used to overcast a pulled thread ground around two motifs in alternate rows:
[1] A faded pink octagon infilled with a light blue eight-pointed star, alternating with a dark blue horizontal cartouche.
[2] A yellow four-pointed star form with a light blue and beige octagonal centre, alternating with a dark blue vertical cartouche.
Scattered angular forms are in between these motifs. All were originally outlined in black cross stitch.
The border is bias-cut woven silk; this would have been woven as a piece of diagonally striped fabric, and would have been cut to produce bias-cut borders. It is decorated with a thin black meander, bearing pink roses or blue star flowers and either light green parakeets or white doves.
Colours (Embroidery threads, 2S silk): white, black, red, pink, yellow, beige, light blue, light turquoise, dark blue, mid-blue [two shades]; (Backing): pink cotton; (Facing): light blue bias-cut satin.
White silk has been used to overcast a pulled thread ground around two motifs in alternate rows:
[1] A faded pink octagon infilled with a light blue eight-pointed star, alternating with a dark blue horizontal cartouche.
[2] A yellow four-pointed star form with a light blue and beige octagonal centre, alternating with a dark blue vertical cartouche.
Scattered angular forms are in between these motifs. All were originally outlined in black cross stitch.
The border is bias-cut woven silk; this would have been woven as a piece of diagonally striped fabric, and would have been cut to produce bias-cut borders. It is decorated with a thin black meander, bearing pink roses or blue star flowers and either light green parakeets or white doves.
Colours (Embroidery threads, 2S silk): white, black, red, pink, yellow, beige, light blue, light turquoise, dark blue, mid-blue [two shades]; (Backing): pink cotton; (Facing): light blue bias-cut satin.
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Materials and techniques | Cotton yarn, silk thread, weaving, embroidering, sewing |
Brief description | Middle East, Textile; Panel, silk-embroidered cotton with woven silk borders, both cut down from larger textiles, packed design of octagons, cartouches and crosses, Azerbaijan or NW Iran, possibly 1770-1800 |
Physical description | Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in surface darning on the diagonal and cross stitch and pulled thread work, backed with plain weave cotton with a facing of silk satin and with an applied border of woven silk. There is a plain weave cotton inter-lining. White silk has been used to overcast a pulled thread ground around two motifs in alternate rows: [1] A faded pink octagon infilled with a light blue eight-pointed star, alternating with a dark blue horizontal cartouche. [2] A yellow four-pointed star form with a light blue and beige octagonal centre, alternating with a dark blue vertical cartouche. Scattered angular forms are in between these motifs. All were originally outlined in black cross stitch. The border is bias-cut woven silk; this would have been woven as a piece of diagonally striped fabric, and would have been cut to produce bias-cut borders. It is decorated with a thin black meander, bearing pink roses or blue star flowers and either light green parakeets or white doves. Colours (Embroidery threads, 2S silk): white, black, red, pink, yellow, beige, light blue, light turquoise, dark blue, mid-blue [two shades]; (Backing): pink cotton; (Facing): light blue bias-cut satin. |
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Marks and inscriptions | (An ink mark reading 'al 20' on the back.) |
Object history | Items 142-1884 to 264-1884 purchased together for 15s. 7d. from S. Churchill, Tehran. |
Bibliographic reference | This embroidery belongs to Group 3 as defined by Jennifer Wearden, 'Azerbaijanian Embroideries: A Synthesis of Contrasts', Hali 59 (October 1991) pp. 102-111. Group 3 textiles are characterised by surface darning on the diagonal, usually in pale shades. |
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Accession number | 258-1884 |
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Record created | March 11, 2008 |
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