Dress Fabric
1840-1870 (made)
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Dress fabric of woven silk and metal thread. With a small scale floral design in salmon pink, blue, white and brown silk on a ground of yellow silk with a loose twist of metal thread. Red silk warp and red, blue, white and brown silk weft. The design is one of small flower heads grouped by leaves branching from a central star shape to form a medallion of a larger flower with a four-lobed compartment also filled with flowers between. Metal thread: silver strip open S-wound on light yellow silk.
Three pieces of the same fabric. Metal thread ground with a dense pattern formed of two designs in alternate rows: 8-petalled rosettes edged with serrated white leaves, each petal containing a flower head in either white, red and brown or in blue, white and faded red. At the centre is a 12-petalled rosette in faded red with a blue centre, edged in white. This main rosette forms a lobed lozenge shape with a central 12-petalled rosette in red and blue, framed by an 8-petalled star in white whose point terminates in either a small red flower or a larger blue and faded red flower head. The four junction points of these lozenges are marked with a red flower with a blue centre.
Three pieces of the same fabric. Metal thread ground with a dense pattern formed of two designs in alternate rows: 8-petalled rosettes edged with serrated white leaves, each petal containing a flower head in either white, red and brown or in blue, white and faded red. At the centre is a 12-petalled rosette in faded red with a blue centre, edged in white. This main rosette forms a lobed lozenge shape with a central 12-petalled rosette in red and blue, framed by an 8-petalled star in white whose point terminates in either a small red flower or a larger blue and faded red flower head. The four junction points of these lozenges are marked with a red flower with a blue centre.
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Materials and techniques | Woven silk and metal thread |
Brief description | Middle East, Textile; Dress fabric, woven silk and metal thread, interlocking grid pattern outlined by serrated leaves, enclosing pale pink and blue flowers against cream ground, Qajar Iran, 1840-1870 |
Physical description | Dress fabric of woven silk and metal thread. With a small scale floral design in salmon pink, blue, white and brown silk on a ground of yellow silk with a loose twist of metal thread. Red silk warp and red, blue, white and brown silk weft. The design is one of small flower heads grouped by leaves branching from a central star shape to form a medallion of a larger flower with a four-lobed compartment also filled with flowers between. Metal thread: silver strip open S-wound on light yellow silk. Three pieces of the same fabric. Metal thread ground with a dense pattern formed of two designs in alternate rows: 8-petalled rosettes edged with serrated white leaves, each petal containing a flower head in either white, red and brown or in blue, white and faded red. At the centre is a 12-petalled rosette in faded red with a blue centre, edged in white. This main rosette forms a lobed lozenge shape with a central 12-petalled rosette in red and blue, framed by an 8-petalled star in white whose point terminates in either a small red flower or a larger blue and faded red flower head. The four junction points of these lozenges are marked with a red flower with a blue centre. |
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Credit line | Given by Mr H. Corvill |
Object history | Compare 34-1889, T.323-1910, T.304-1966 and fragments among the sub-numbers of T.21-1955. Originally given in a frame with the label 'Persian XVIIth C. Bought in Ispahan 1929. Said to be local.' |
Bibliographic reference | Published in 'Iranian Textiles' by Jennifer Wearden and Patricia L Baker (V&A Publishing, 2010) plate 29.
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Accession number | T.29-1967 |
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Record created | May 13, 2008 |
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