Dress Fabric
1800-1890 (made)
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Dress fabric, woven silk and cotton brocaded with silk and metal thread.
Displayed behind glass.
Warp: blue silk
Weft: Z-spun blue cotton
Brocading wefts: pink, red, green, purple silk and gilt metal strip Z-wound on yellow silk core.
Stripes:
[1] blue ground with isolated gold lobed circles each containing an almost circular arrangement of leaves in gold, pink and green, pink and purple, red and green and red and purple.
[2] blue ground hardly visible beneath a sinuous gold stem decorated with small red, pink, green and purple dots. To either side of the stem are large gold floral shapes with details in the same colours.
Displayed behind glass.
Warp: blue silk
Weft: Z-spun blue cotton
Brocading wefts: pink, red, green, purple silk and gilt metal strip Z-wound on yellow silk core.
Stripes:
[1] blue ground with isolated gold lobed circles each containing an almost circular arrangement of leaves in gold, pink and green, pink and purple, red and green and red and purple.
[2] blue ground hardly visible beneath a sinuous gold stem decorated with small red, pink, green and purple dots. To either side of the stem are large gold floral shapes with details in the same colours.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | cotton yarn, silk thread, metal thread, weaving |
| Brief description | brocaded, 1800s, Persian; Flowers and stripes |
| Physical description | Dress fabric, woven silk and cotton brocaded with silk and metal thread. Displayed behind glass. Warp: blue silk Weft: Z-spun blue cotton Brocading wefts: pink, red, green, purple silk and gilt metal strip Z-wound on yellow silk core. Stripes: [1] blue ground with isolated gold lobed circles each containing an almost circular arrangement of leaves in gold, pink and green, pink and purple, red and green and red and purple. [2] blue ground hardly visible beneath a sinuous gold stem decorated with small red, pink, green and purple dots. To either side of the stem are large gold floral shapes with details in the same colours. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1353-1899 |
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| Record created | July 8, 2008 |
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