brocaded, 1800s, Persian; Flowers Dress fabric, silk and cotton plain weave brocaded with silk and metal thread. Displayed behind glass. Warp: pink silk Weft: pink [?] cotton Brocading Weft: silk: black, light green, dark green, blue, mauve, pink; metal thread: silver strip S-wound on white silk core. The lower sides have been cut into a concave curve. Pink ground with offset rows of an oval shaped floral arrangement: small light coloured bowl at the base, pair of green leaves, a blue and a light green blossom, a small central pink and mauve mauve [?] flower, to the left is a silver [?] pointed flower and to the right is a left-curving stem with small flowers.