Middle East, Textile; Fragment of a cover of embroidered cotton with silk thread, Azerbaijan, 1770-1799 Fragment of a cover of plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in surface darning on the diagonal and running stitch. Embroidery threads: 2S silk; black, white, dark green, green, light blue, yellow, red, blue, light brown. Incomplete pattern of lozenges and diamonds and stars. There is a yellow star with a small blue diamond centre. To the right of this is the upper part of a diamond sub-divided into smaller diamonds in red, yellow, dark green and white.