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1800-1870 (made)
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Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in straight stitches and needleweaving and silk and metal thread in pulled thread work; whitework
Three sides have been rolled and stitched in place. Rather loose embroidery.
The outer edge is worked with reciprocal diamond heads. There is a band of loose needleweaving either side of a wide border divided into lines of 4 squares loosely worked in pulled thread: a block of 4 lines in silk followed by 2 using metal thread - this arrangement is lost in the corners and is in blocks of 3 lines in silk down one side. There is a band of diagonal lines around the central rectangle. There are 2 patterns but the arrangement is irregular: a wider band of diamonds in metal thread, and lines of a closed mesh in either silk or metal thread. The central panel has three borders worked in silk, but each does not necessarily go round all 4 sides. There are 4 corner squares inside in metal thread edged with reciprocal diamond heads. The rest of the ground is undecorated.
Cotton thread: Z-spun
Embroidery Thread: white silk; 2S, very regular twist
Metal Thread: silver-gilt strip open S-wound on a white silk core.
Three sides have been rolled and stitched in place. Rather loose embroidery.
The outer edge is worked with reciprocal diamond heads. There is a band of loose needleweaving either side of a wide border divided into lines of 4 squares loosely worked in pulled thread: a block of 4 lines in silk followed by 2 using metal thread - this arrangement is lost in the corners and is in blocks of 3 lines in silk down one side. There is a band of diagonal lines around the central rectangle. There are 2 patterns but the arrangement is irregular: a wider band of diamonds in metal thread, and lines of a closed mesh in either silk or metal thread. The central panel has three borders worked in silk, but each does not necessarily go round all 4 sides. There are 4 corner squares inside in metal thread edged with reciprocal diamond heads. The rest of the ground is undecorated.
Cotton thread: Z-spun
Embroidery Thread: white silk; 2S, very regular twist
Metal Thread: silver-gilt strip open S-wound on a white silk core.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | cotton yarn, silk thread, weaving, embroidering, whitework |
| Brief description | embroidered, 1800s, Persian; Whitework |
| Physical description | Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in straight stitches and needleweaving and silk and metal thread in pulled thread work; whitework Three sides have been rolled and stitched in place. Rather loose embroidery. The outer edge is worked with reciprocal diamond heads. There is a band of loose needleweaving either side of a wide border divided into lines of 4 squares loosely worked in pulled thread: a block of 4 lines in silk followed by 2 using metal thread - this arrangement is lost in the corners and is in blocks of 3 lines in silk down one side. There is a band of diagonal lines around the central rectangle. There are 2 patterns but the arrangement is irregular: a wider band of diamonds in metal thread, and lines of a closed mesh in either silk or metal thread. The central panel has three borders worked in silk, but each does not necessarily go round all 4 sides. There are 4 corner squares inside in metal thread edged with reciprocal diamond heads. The rest of the ground is undecorated. Cotton thread: Z-spun Embroidery Thread: white silk; 2S, very regular twist Metal Thread: silver-gilt strip open S-wound on a white silk core. |
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| Accession number | 2364-1876 |
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| Record created | June 10, 2008 |
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