Textile
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: A length of woven velvet with a large-scale, vertically symmetrical design in the style of the seventeenth century. Ogees with serrated edges containing small flowering tree motifs are surrounded by a large-scale ogival framing devide made up of pearl borders; with a pearl crescent at the point of intersection. In gold metallic twill on a ground of green silk velvet pile in various shades, giving a striae effect.
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 Harvey Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1958-104-1
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, cotton, metallic foil wrapped around silk Technique: twill weave with supplementary warp pile (velvet) Label: silk and metallic velvet with linen weft
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 158.1 x 64.1 cm (5 ft. 2 1/4 in. x 25 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Repeat H: 98.4 cm (38 3/4 in.)