Textile

Museum number:
9-14994
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090014994
Alternate number:
899 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.09
Description:
Potentially towel, potentially bed hanging. Cotton, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Plain weave, embroidered. Crocheted end trim. White ground, varicolored designs. 2 yards x 25 in. Floral, other motifs. Potentially variant of "mosque and cyprus" design.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Katherine Hooker
Collection place:
Turkey
Verbatim coll. place:
ASIA MINOR Object Label: Turkey
Materials:
Metal, Metal (embroidery, cot, silk, metal), and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bed hangings, Embroidery (visual works), and Towels
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 72 inches and width 25 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-14994, described as Potentially towel, potentially bed hanging. Cotton, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Plain weave, embroidered. Crocheted end trim. White ground, varicolored designs. 2 yards x 25 in. Floral, other motifs. Potentially variant of "mosque and cyprus" design.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-14994, described as Potentially towel, potentially bed hanging. Cotton, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Plain weave, embroidered. Crocheted end trim. White ground, varicolored designs. 2 yards x 25 in. Floral, other motifs. Potentially variant of "mosque and cyprus" design.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-14994, described as Potentially towel, potentially bed hanging. Cotton, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Plain weave, embroidered. Crocheted end trim. White ground, varicolored designs. 2 yards x 25 in. Floral, other motifs. Potentially variant of "mosque and cyprus" design.

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