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hand towel
17th century
This item is embroidered at each end with a border pattern composed of stylised flowers, foliate and leaf motifs. Stitch techniques used include double darning, satin stitch, fishbone stitch and doub...
hand towel
17th century
This item has been embroidered at both ends with a pair of sprays of flowers with curved and hooked stems, set horizontally. Double darning stitch, fishbone stitch, satin stitch and double running st...
hand towel
17th-18th Century
This item is embroidered at both ends with a pair of sprays of flowers set horizontally. The sprays have buds on a curved stem, bent over a stylised flower motif with serrated leaves and a hooked ste...
napkin
late 18th Century
This item is embroidered at both ends with a border pattern composed of columns encircling pine trees, and stylised floral motifs. Architectural motifs were a common feature of Turkish embroidery dur...
napkin
late 18th Century
This piece is embroidered at both ends with flower and cypress tree motifs and kiosk forms. There is a second narrower border at the edge with a pattern of cypress trees and flowers. Celestial kiosk...
sash
18th century
This item is an embroidered end of a sash. The embroidery consists of a symmetrically arranged flower sprig in a pot. A narrow border of floral scrolling runs along the bottom. The embroidery has be...
hand towel
17th-18th Century
This item is embroidered at both ends with a pair of floral branches and fish like motifs set horizontally. The base cloth is self striped horizontally. The pattern has been achieved using double da...
mirror cover
late 17th century
This item has been embroidered along the edges with a border pattern of repeating isolated whirl motifs set side by side. The embroidery techniques used include double darning stitch, double running ...
hand towel
17th century
This item is embroidered at both ends with a pair of stylised narcissi and serrated leaf motifs with curved stems. Curved stems with hooked ends are a typical motif used in Turkish embroidery. Two n...
kerchief
18th century
A head kerchief embroidered along each of its four edges with a narrow border pattern of alternating trees and triple buds. This is a feature which can be seen on other extant examples of eighteenth ...
sash
18th Century
This item would have originally formed one end of a sash, with the same design embroidered at the other end (number ITC 221). The embroidered border is 30cm wide. It consists of a symmetrically arra...