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Total number of records: 23
Textile:
ITC 2010.13
ITC 2010.13
Mid 19th century
Length of plain woven linen fabric with selvedges down each long side, hemmed along the base edge and small fringe/ fraying along the top edge. The embroidered design is work in repeating outlined row...
Textile:
ITC 2010.14
ITC 2010.14
Mid 19th century
Fragment of cotton fabric with an embroidered design composed to two vertical rows of stylised repeating floral motifs. The motifs are identical in each row but worked in different coloured silks. Sma...
Textile:
ITC 2010.15
ITC 2010.15
late 19th Century
Napkin with cotton ground and an embroidered border along one end.
The embroidered border design is composed of a stylised floral image which is repeated as a mirror design. A narrow line of embroide...
Textile:
ITC 2010.16
ITC 2010.16
Mid 19th Century
Towel made of cotton with silk embroidered and drawn thread fringed ends.
The towel is woven as a single width with a combination of thick and thin weft threads, resulting in a striped appearance wit...
Textile:
ITC 207
ITC 207
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...
Textile:
ITC 208
ITC 208
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...
Textile:
ITC 211
ITC 211
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...
Textile:
ITC 217
ITC 217
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...
Textile:
ITC 218
ITC 218
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...
Textile:
ITC 221
ITC 221
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...
Textile:
ITC 223
ITC 223
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...
Textile:
ITC 225
ITC 225
c. 1906
This item is embroidered at both ends with 25cm deep stylised carnation sprigs, symmetrically arranged on a central stem. The patterning techniques include double darning stitch, fishbone stitch and ...