Dress Fabric
1800-1899 (made)
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Dress fabric of woven silk and metal threads.
Warp: pink silk and grey silk, both Z twist
Weft: silk: pink, grey and yellow, all indeterminable twist.
Metal thread: silver strip S-wound on a cream silk core, indeterminable twist.
Grey ground with an incomplete pattern of right-facing botehs in one row, infilled with a flowering stem, terminating in a small drop boteh pendant. In between large botehs, at their bases, a small vase form from which a symmetrical flowering stem emerges. In the remaining spaces are fish (or more probably a leaf form). The motifs are all in metal thread with yellow details.
Warp: pink silk and grey silk, both Z twist
Weft: silk: pink, grey and yellow, all indeterminable twist.
Metal thread: silver strip S-wound on a cream silk core, indeterminable twist.
Grey ground with an incomplete pattern of right-facing botehs in one row, infilled with a flowering stem, terminating in a small drop boteh pendant. In between large botehs, at their bases, a small vase form from which a symmetrical flowering stem emerges. In the remaining spaces are fish (or more probably a leaf form). The motifs are all in metal thread with yellow details.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven silk and metal threads |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of woven silk and metal threads, Iran, 1800-1899 |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of woven silk and metal threads. Warp: pink silk and grey silk, both Z twist Weft: silk: pink, grey and yellow, all indeterminable twist. Metal thread: silver strip S-wound on a cream silk core, indeterminable twist. Grey ground with an incomplete pattern of right-facing botehs in one row, infilled with a flowering stem, terminating in a small drop boteh pendant. In between large botehs, at their bases, a small vase form from which a symmetrical flowering stem emerges. In the remaining spaces are fish (or more probably a leaf form). The motifs are all in metal thread with yellow details. |
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| Credit line | Given by T. S. W. Jarvis, Esq. |
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| Accession number | T.21:49-1955 |
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| Record created | April 30, 2008 |
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