Cleveland Museum of Art

Embroidered Cover or Curtain

Date

17th-18th century

Medium

embroidery: silk on linen tabby ground

Culture

Turkey, 17th-18th century

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This exuberant pattern of spiraling roundels enlivens a ground of isolated vegetation, despite disintegrated dark brown–black silk thread outlines. Professional draftsmen would have drawn the pattern in ink on the reverse side of several loosely attached, plain linen cloths. They were separated for embroiderers to follow and then reassembled; frequently, the designs do not match perfectly at the seams.

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