Prayer Mat
1800-1860 (made)
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Plain weave cotton, seamed along the lower edge, embroidered with silk in straight and chain stitches, backed with plain weave roller-printed cotton and faced with bias cut plain weave cotton.
The unbleached cotton field is printed or marked with highly visible brown lines [under drawing]. The arched field is embroidered with pink flowers on a ground of quilted scales in white. The area beneath the point of the arch has parrots around the prayer-stone roundel. The spandrels are covered with a dense ogival lattice in green with pink buds. The border is worked with pink floral sprays on a green stem against the quilted scales of the ground. The border is flanked by two narrow bands of meandering foliage with pink buds, with a single band along the bottom edge.
Backing: cotton printed in orange and green with flower-filled botehs within interlinked foliate hexagons against a dark blue ground.
Facing: dark blue cotton, bias cut, possibly added later.
The unbleached cotton field is printed or marked with highly visible brown lines [under drawing]. The arched field is embroidered with pink flowers on a ground of quilted scales in white. The area beneath the point of the arch has parrots around the prayer-stone roundel. The spandrels are covered with a dense ogival lattice in green with pink buds. The border is worked with pink floral sprays on a green stem against the quilted scales of the ground. The border is flanked by two narrow bands of meandering foliage with pink buds, with a single band along the bottom edge.
Backing: cotton printed in orange and green with flower-filled botehs within interlinked foliate hexagons against a dark blue ground.
Facing: dark blue cotton, bias cut, possibly added later.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | cotton yarn, silk thread, weaving, printing, embroidering, sewing |
| Brief description | embroidered & quilted, 1800s, Persian |
| Physical description | Plain weave cotton, seamed along the lower edge, embroidered with silk in straight and chain stitches, backed with plain weave roller-printed cotton and faced with bias cut plain weave cotton. The unbleached cotton field is printed or marked with highly visible brown lines [under drawing]. The arched field is embroidered with pink flowers on a ground of quilted scales in white. The area beneath the point of the arch has parrots around the prayer-stone roundel. The spandrels are covered with a dense ogival lattice in green with pink buds. The border is worked with pink floral sprays on a green stem against the quilted scales of the ground. The border is flanked by two narrow bands of meandering foliage with pink buds, with a single band along the bottom edge. Backing: cotton printed in orange and green with flower-filled botehs within interlinked foliate hexagons against a dark blue ground. Facing: dark blue cotton, bias cut, possibly added later. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Glory be to my Exalted Lord and praise belong to Him. (Embroidered inscription from the daily prayer.) |
| Bibliographic reference | Illustrated in 'Iranian Textiles' by Jennifer Wearden and Patricia L Baker, V&A Publishing 2010 fig. 44 page 61 (whole) and page 6 (large detail). |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 809-1876 |
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| Record created | February 24, 2009 |
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