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  • Prayer mat, of silk and cotton satin embroidered with silk in split stitch, quilted and backed with roller-printed cotton and faced with black cotton. Two types of small embroidered and quilted covers were made in Iran in the 19th century: one for kneeling on in prayer and one for sitting on in the outer or dressing room of the bath. 'The former is always distinguished by a small embroidered mark or panel near one end, meant to mark the spot on which to place the little piece of holy earth from Kerbala [a holy city in Iran] to be touched by the forehead during the prescribed prostrations. The groundwork of both kinds is generally of common cotton cloth, although sometimes of silk, the needlework being in silk thread of various brilliant colours, representing flowers, bouquests etc.. In a carpeted room the difficulty of obeying literally the commandment of The Koran, to bow the head to the ground in prayer, is got over by thus placing on the carpet a small disc of clay or stone and touching it with the forehead'. Quoted from 'Persian Art' by Major Murdoch Smith [London, 1877, pp. 52-3]. [2002] (en)
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