used
| - Dress fabric of brocaded silk. Warp-faced plain weave ground.
Warp: red silk, possibly Z twist
Weft: silk: red, white, dark grey, green, light blue, dark blue, pink, indeterminable twist
Metal thread: silver strip S-wound on a yellow silk core, indeterminable twist; both open and closed winding.
Red ground with an incomplete design: there is one row with three isolated floral plants. The outer pair are in grey and white with a pink bud and the central one is in dark and light blue with a white bud, all with green leaves and edged in yellow. In between each plant there is a facing butterfly in similar colours and at the base of each plant there is an opposed butterfly in either pink and green or white and green. (en)
- Dress fabric of brocaded silk, Iran, 1800-1850 (en)
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