Towel
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: White solid looped uncut pile except at ends, where on a border of plain weave, a secondary gold weft forms a symmetrical design of palmettes and flower-filled urns, with geometric and highly conventionalized foliate border. Scalloped fringe on ends.
place: label: made in
content: Turkey
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-1198
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Towel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft looping and supplementary continuous weft
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 193.5 × 104.5 cm (6 ft. 4 3/16 in. × 41 1/8 in.)