Dress fabric of silk satin woven with silks, Iran, 1850-1899Dress fabric of silk satin woven with silks.
Woven silk, satin ground, cut on the bias.
Warp: dark blue or possibly black, light blue, red, yellow silk, all Z-twist
Weft: red, pink, brown, green, light blue, yellow silk, all indeterminable twist
Striped pattern.
[1] dark blue or possibly black ground with a small floral element in two variations in red edged in blue with green leaves edged in yellow.
[2] yellow ground with a small floral element in red with green leaves edged in brown.
Each stripe is edged with a very narrow light blue, red and light blue borders.