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fabric panel
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...
embroidered panel
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...
napkin
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...
towel
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...
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...
napkin end
18th-19th Century
This item is the embroidered end of a napkin. The pattern is a 15cm deep border pattern composed of four isolated motifs of flowers in a vase. A typical continuous narrow border of stylised tulips a...
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 ...
napkin fragment
18th-19th Century
This item is a fragment probably from the border of a napkin. Four large isolated flower motifs are embroidered above a narrow border pattern of a wavy line. The stitch techniques used are mainly do...
napkin fragment
19th century
One end of a napkin. A motif of flowers in a vase is repeated four times along the border pattern of this fragment. A continuous narrow border of stylised tulips and leaves has been worked along the...
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...
napkin fragment
19th century
This item is the detached border from one end of a napkin. The same border pattern would have been repeated at the other end. The main pattern consists of repeating rose buds and leaves, framed by a...
napkin fragment
19th century
This item is the detached border from one end of a napkin. The same border pattern would have been repeated at the other end. The main pattern consists of repeating rose buds and leaves, framed by a...
kerchief ends
19th Century
These items originally formed two embroidered decorative borders of a single piece of fabric. They are embroidered with geometric flower motifs set vertically, interspersed with bands worked using me...