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Safavid prayer rug design
Churchill, Sidney John Alexander (1862-1921)
16th-19th Century
Two pieces of cloth-backed squared paper with a design or cartoon for a silk prayer rug. The design depicts a mihrab shape decorated with arabesques and lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and magnolia flowe...
cap
before 1947
This cap is decorated with borders of couched scrolls of gold coloured metallic thread, and palmettes with eyelets. The eyelets have been worked in white and outlined with red.
cap
before 1947
The patterned decoration on this cap is composed of geometric borders with scrolls and chain patterns, couched onto the surface of the fabric in gold coloured metallic threads. It is lined with red c...
bag
before 1947
This item is a bag made from a woven silk fabric, which has been hemmed with a wide needle woven border. The piece is folded over and edged with a silk cord at the sides so as to form a bag; two squ...
bag
1800-1947
This item is a bag made from a 19th century jacquard woven silk fabric. The fabric has been folded up and stitched at the sides to form a bag. Silk cord has been stitched around the edges, and the b...
panel for purse
before 1947
This item forms a panel intended for use in the construction of a purse. It is tapestry woven in the pattern of a tulip using a silk weft and linen warp. The tulip is said to come from a Persian wor...
jacket
19th Century
This item is made from a total of 23 separate pieces of embroidered cloth. This could indicate that the jacket represents a secondary use for fabric previously used for another purpose. It has an op...
prayer mat
before 1947
This item is made of cotton fabric quilted in zigzag parallel lines and backed with a printed cotton fabric. A 14cm wide border of floral sprays framed by leaves forming squares runs along the sides ...