Cover
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Square panel composed of two horizontal fragments sewed together near the center. Each panel has an incomplete design facing in opposite directions. Ground gold (faded in one fragment) has a design of a conventionalized cypress tree in green, red, blue and white. Border woven at the same time as the body in three bands of small-scale flowers. Piped and faced with blue and white striped compound satin. Backed with red cotton herringbone twill.
place: label: made in
content: Iran
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1938-57-1285
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Cover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic threads; cotton backing Technique: plain compound weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 61.1 x 60.2 cm (24 1/16 x 23 11/16 in.)