Towel

Museum number:
9-15796
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015796
Alternate number:
1972 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Linen, silk, metal wrapped yarns and flat metal strips-composed runner. Plain weave with heavier yarns making weft stripes, embroidered. Natural ground with varicolored designs, Mosque and cyprus, leaf meander motifs.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Asia
Verbatim coll. place:
ASIA MINOR
Materials:
Linen (material) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Towels
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 18 inches and length 57 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 9-15796, described as Linen, silk, metal wrapped yarns and flat metal strips-composed runner. Plain weave with heavier yarns making weft stripes, embroidered. Natural ground with varicolored designs, Mosque and cyprus, leaf meander motifs.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 9-15796, described as Linen, silk, metal wrapped yarns and flat metal strips-composed runner. Plain weave with heavier yarns making weft stripes, embroidered. Natural ground with varicolored designs, Mosque and cyprus, leaf meander motifs.

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