Dress Fabric
1800-1860 (made)
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Dress fabric of brocaded silk with metal threads.
Woven and brocaded silk, plain weave ground.
Warp: light turquoise silk, indeterminable twist. Weft: silk: light turquoise, red, pink [or possibly faded red], bright green, all indeterminable twist.
Metal thread: silver-gilt strip close and open S-wound on cream and also on deep yellow silk cores, both Z-twist.
Light turquoise ground with a repeating pattern of leafy lozenges joined by quatrefoil motifs. Each lozenge contains a large blossom and leaf and they are worked in metal thread with the plant leaves edged in bright green and the flower heads edged in red.
Woven and brocaded silk, plain weave ground.
Warp: light turquoise silk, indeterminable twist. Weft: silk: light turquoise, red, pink [or possibly faded red], bright green, all indeterminable twist.
Metal thread: silver-gilt strip close and open S-wound on cream and also on deep yellow silk cores, both Z-twist.
Light turquoise ground with a repeating pattern of leafy lozenges joined by quatrefoil motifs. Each lozenge contains a large blossom and leaf and they are worked in metal thread with the plant leaves edged in bright green and the flower heads edged in red.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Brocaded silk with metal threads |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of brocaded silk with metal threads, Iran, 1800-1860 |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of brocaded silk with metal threads. Woven and brocaded silk, plain weave ground. Warp: light turquoise silk, indeterminable twist. Weft: silk: light turquoise, red, pink [or possibly faded red], bright green, all indeterminable twist. Metal thread: silver-gilt strip close and open S-wound on cream and also on deep yellow silk cores, both Z-twist. Light turquoise ground with a repeating pattern of leafy lozenges joined by quatrefoil motifs. Each lozenge contains a large blossom and leaf and they are worked in metal thread with the plant leaves edged in bright green and the flower heads edged in red. |
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| Credit line | Given by T. S. W. Jarvis, Esq. |
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| Accession number | T.21:67-1955 |
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| Record created | April 30, 2008 |
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