Flowers of Silk and Gold: Four Centuries of Ottoman EmbroideryThe practice of Ottoman embroidery gave rise to flowers in silk and gold that still enchant. |
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19th century Acquired by George Ahmed III Anatolia back face balanced plain weave bohças Bursa century The Textile chain stitch cloth cm Construction cm Edge finish colored metal strips Cotsen Textile Documentation cotton double running stitch drawn in ink eighteenth century EMBROIDERY Embroidery threads Embroidery stitches European face of fabric flat stitch FOUNDATION Warp George Hewitt Myers gold ground fabric hemmed EMBROIDERY Embroidery İstanbul Leyla Saz light blue light brown light green light-yellow silk thread linen Lloyd Cotsen Textile metal strips Z-twisted nineteenth century ning stitch NOTES Pattern drawn Ottoman embroidery Ottoman Empire overall length overall width panels sewn pink plain weave Dimensions rolled and hemmed satin stitch selvedges shades of light stitch in diagonal stitch NOTES Pattern Sultan Textile Documentation Project Textile Museum Textile Museum 1998 three sides rolled Topkapi Palace towels Turkish undyed Structure undyed Weft unspun warp and weft women Z-spun Z-twisted around light-yellow