Tehatmak textile

Museum number:
9-15063
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1040 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Textile for a Tehatmak. Silk, cotton, metal wrapped yarns. Cut and uncut pile, brocaded; satin weave. Silver ground, worn off to show white, and yellow yarns. Red designs. Floral motives, central lozenge. Rare. Exhibited at S.F. Exposition. 49 inches by 20½ inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
Iran (Persia)
Verbatim coll. place:
PERSIA
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 49 inches and width 21 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Tehatmak textile, accession number 9-15063, described as Textile for a Tehatmak. Silk, cotton, metal wrapped yarns. Cut and uncut pile, brocaded; satin weave. Silver ground, worn off to show white, and yellow yarns. Red designs. Floral motives, central lozenge. Rare. Exhibited at S.F. Exposition. 49 inches by 20½ inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tehatmak textile, accession number 9-15063, described as Textile for a Tehatmak. Silk, cotton, metal wrapped yarns. Cut and uncut pile, brocaded; satin weave. Silver ground, worn off to show white, and yellow yarns. Red designs. Floral motives, central lozenge. Rare. Exhibited at S.F. Exposition. 49 inches by 20½ inches.

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