. . "Dress fabric of brocaded silk with metal threads, Iran, 1800-1860"@en . "2021-02-10T00:00:00"^^ . "Dress fabric of brocaded silk with metal threads.\nWoven and brocaded silk, plain weave ground.\nWarp: light turquoise silk, indeterminable twist. Weft: silk: light turquoise, red, pink [or possibly faded red], bright green, all indeterminable twist.\nMetal thread: silver-gilt strip close and open S-wound on cream and also on deep yellow silk cores, both Z-twist.\nLight turquoise ground with a repeating pattern of leafy lozenges joined by quatrefoil motifs. Each lozenge contains a large blossom and leaf and they are worked in metal thread with the plant leaves edged in bright green and the flower heads edged in red."@en .