Textile
date: label: Date
content: possibly 13th century
notes: label: Description
content: Deep red velvet with offset repeat pattern of gold disks. The foundation is plain weave formed by a red silk warp and tan silk weft; the supplementary warp pile is red silk. The velvet pile is voided in the areas where the coin dots appear, and supplementary gold wefts are floated in pairs to the surface in these areas, bound in twill with the secondary ivory warp.
place: label: made in
content: Tabriz (?), Iran
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-385
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic Technique: supplementary warp pile (velvet) in plain weave foundation, with continuous supplementary weft patterning Label: Silk cut velvet with metallic thread patterning in a plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 53 × 26 cm (20 7/8 × 10 1/4 in.)