Dress fabric of brocaded silk satin and metal thread.
Woven and brocaded silk and metal thread, satin ground with twill binding.
Dark brown ground with two incomplete offset rows each containing two incomplete right-leaning botehs. There is a root system, a pair of leaves and one large almost octagonal flower head above which are smaller flower heads, creating a segmented effect. The leaves are green silk and metal thread and the flower heads are yellow silk and metal thread; everything is outlined in red. Warp: dark brown silk, S-twist. Weft: dark brown silk, S-twist, yellow, red and green silk, indeterminable twist. Metal thread: silver strip open S-wound on yellow silk.Dress fabric of brocaded silk satin and metal thread, Iran, 1800-1870