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1800 / 1899, Turkey

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Victoria and Albert MuseumVictoria and Albert Museum
Identifier
T.191-1957
Acquisition
Given by Sir Leigh Ashton
Collection
Middle East Section
Material
Silk thread
Metal thread
Technique
Weaving
Embroider
Depiction
  • Geometrical motif 55%
  • Geometrical motif 77%
Dimension
160 cm (length)
53 cm (width)
Production time
1800 / 1899
18th century (dates CE)
19th century (dates CE)
Production place
Turkey
Type of object
fabrics

Description

At the end of the 18th century embroidery designs began to develop into rigid and heavily stylised borders for towels and napkins. The colours of 18th and 19th century embroideries were originally very bright but many have faded to pleasing pastel shades; often great quantities of metal thread were used. Napkins were mainly used to clean fingers during meals, but were also used as decoration and as covers. Their designs were consistently inventive. Towel/Napkin, linen embroidered with silk in double darning and double running in a line, and with plate in satin stitch and satin stitch filling in squares. The narrow border along either end consists of two types of flower, a rose and a pansy, in shades of pink and orange and yellow. These are linked by a meandering stem with small leaves in green and blue. The main border is worked in the same colours and consists of four pansy-like flowers above which are three, and an incomplete fourth, large flowers, a pink one alternating with ann orange/yellow one. Between these are densely packed leaf-like motifs topped in dark and light blue. There is a metal lace edging along either end and along the side of the borders.

The data contained in ADASilk comes from the archives of Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, CDMT Terrassa, Europeana, Gallica, Garín 1820, Joconde Database of French Museum Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mobilier International, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée des Tissus, Musei di Venezia, Museo de Arte Sacro El Tesoro de la Concepción, Paris Musées, Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España, Rhode Island School of Design, Sicily Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian, Versailles, Victoria and Albert Museum. The Virtual Loom and Spatio-Temporal Maps visualizations have been developed by Universitat de Valencia. ADASilk is based on a generic exploratory search engine for knowledge graphs being developed at EURECOM and includes scientific contributions from Universitat de Valencia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Lyon 2, Universita Degli Studi di Palermo, GARIN 1820 S.A., Institut Jozef Stefan, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Monkeyfab, and Instituto Cervantes.

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