textile fragment

Not on Display

Geography:

Iran

Materials:

silk; foil, gilded; foil, silver

Collection:

The Textile Museum Collection

Accession Number:

3.113

Credit Line:

Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1928

Date:

17th century-18th century

Public domain

Object Type:

Textile

Dimensions:

Structure:

supplementary-weft patterning; twill weave, double-faced

Bibliography:

Carol Bier (Editor), Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran 16th-19th Centuries, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., 1987, p. 178, cat. no. 21

Arthur Upham Pope (Author) and Phyllis Ackerman (Editor), A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, SOPA, Ashiya, 1981, vol. 11 , pl. 1056A

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Exhibition History:

Persian Exhibition, Burlington House, January 01, 1930 - January 01, 1931

Selections from the Textile Museum Collections, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington DC, May 19, 2018 - February 24, 2019

Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of the Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th - 19th centuries, September 12, 1987 - February 11, 1988

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