Textile
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: Fragment of velvet with rows of offset circles in creamy off-white on a deep red velvet pile ground. Each circle contains a medallion near its base, encircled by flowering hyacinth branches. Each medallion contains a pearl near its base, encircled by a carnation and tulip on a vine. Trefoil patterns in the interstices. A border at the bottom shows carnations (upside down) enclosed in shield-shaped tabs. In red, off-white and gold with touches of pale green.
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: Gift of Eleanor M. Delanoy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1978-169-124
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, cotton, metallic yarns Technique: supplementary warp pile (velvet) with two sets of supplementary warps (red and blue) in a five-harness satin foundation, with discontinuous supplementary wefts patterning (brocade) bound in 1/4 twill Label: silk velvet with metallic brocade
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 87 x 65.7 cm (34 1/4 x 25 7/8 in.)