Woven silk and metal thread twill brocaded with metal thread.
Displayed behind glass.
Warp: Z-twisted pink silk
Weft: gilt strip S-wound on orange silk core.
Brocading weft: silver strip S-wound on dark blue silk core.
1/5 twill.
Pink and gold ground with a lobed lozenge containing an inscription and date in silver thread, which has worn to reveal the blue core.

Dechado rectangular de tafetán de lino muy abierto (esterilla) color tostado con bordes rematados en dobladillo a punto de vainica ciega. Decoración: Bordado polícromo con hilos de lino y seda dobles y sencillos en colores verdes, rojo, azul, rosa, malva, amarillo y negro. Geométrica, zoomorfa, vegetal y simbólica (religiosa), a punto de `a por cuenta` a punto de cruz, y pasado. Orla exterior, en los lados menores guirnalda vegetal serpenteante, arriba de flores y hojas yuxtapuestas. En el centro gran Custodia coronada con pie floral, a la izquierda ave (periquito) posada en rama y dos pájaras afrontadas a cada lado del tulipán coronado; a la derecha barco de tres palos con tres banderas, un jinete a caballo y un cesto de frutas. Leyenda

Woven silk and metal thread.
Striped pattern:
[1] light blue ground with a line of red triangular flowers above green leaves offset with two half motifs. [2] wider strip with an undecorated gold ground [silver strip open S-wound on a white silk core]. [3] as [1]. [4] wider stripe with worn metal ground as [2] and a line of a stylized floral  motif: round, red flower above a pair of red birds with blue wings sitting on a branch which ends with three green leaves and from which hangs a bell-like red and blue flower; red stylized roots.
There is a woven inscription across the top of the main piece. The end has been folded under. There is a selvedge down the right hand side which has been turned under and stitched.

1863, Iran

1863, Iran

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