Knitted silk purse, stocking stitch, with metal thread loops.
Displayed behind glass.
Acquired in Julfa, the Armenian suburb of Isphahan.
Red, purple, green, black, white, yellow and mauve silk.  A long, narrow purse with a rounded bottom, open at the top.  There seems to be 2 gold coloured metal thread loops, one at either side of the opening.  Seemingly independent of these is a silk cord which has been passed through small thread loops and which could be pulled tight to close the purse.  The cord ends with a 'pendant' of interlaced gold coloured metal thread.
The purse is decorated with a series of barrow bands along the upper part: purple, reciprocal yellow and black trefoils, an indistinct green pattern on a purple ground, the trefoils again and then a series of vertical stripes on a white ground.  There is a narrow and two wider stripes visible: the narrow contains a meander and the wider contain 2 stylized plants with a pair of birds perched on their top.  The colours are used in bands: purple, green, red, mauve, purple etc.. Towards the rounded bottom there is a repeat of the trefoil band either side of a purple band with joining X- and S-motifs in white.
There seem to be narrow bands going down to the bottom in which a band with a star motif is in between bands of red, green and purple.

The design consists of a repetition of crudely drawn flower forms growing from a flower and leaf form which is substituted for the usual pot; the ground is a heavy mesh called "Fond Double", Fond Chant", etc.

Gold ground, the design of symmetrically arranged bunches of flowers, etc., is woven with brown, red, reddish violet, blue, green, and greenish yellow silk, and silver cord.  Pieced.

Prenda de cabeza de forma semicircular realizada con dos piezas de tejido, la menor colocada en sentido transversal, con ligamento de seda de color salmón con decoración realizada en seda azul, verde, blanca e hilos metálicos de plata y plata sobredorada. La decoración principal se reparte alternándose en bandas, en las que se suceden los ramos vegetales en azul y blanco con león rampante en hilo dorado, con otras en las que aparece el mismo ramo vegetal en este caso verde y un ave empenachada en hilo de plata. Los espacios resultantes se completan con pequeñas ramitas con hojas y frutos que se alternan según la hilera con ovejas adornadas con lazo y pequeños jabalíes.   
La prenda aparece rematada perimetralmente por puntilla de encaje tipo Puntos de España realizada con hilo metálico de plata sobredorada.

Three female and four men figures, and a dog in the foreground in a wooded setting. In the center right a sitted woman sings from a music book while another woman behind her plays an instrument. Two other standing men at her right play music. In the center left, a woman is holding a jar on her head while looking at a standing man with a dog. In the background, a fountain and a road. The border is composed of a continuous floral motif.

Page of the illustrated manuscript "The  Illustrated Regulations for Ceremonial   Paraphernalia of the Present Dynasty."

Silk, cut, and uncut velvet weave against satin weave ground

1601 / 1700, Italy

1601 / 1700, Italy