"1800 / 1876, Turkey" . . . . "1800 / 1876, Turkey" . "embroidered, 1800s, Turkish"@en . "480-1877" . "embroidered, 1800s, Turkish"@en . . . "At the end of the 18th century embroidery designs began to develop into rigid and heavily stylised borders for towels and napkins. The colours of 18th and 19th century embroideries were originally very bright but many have faded to pleasing pastel shades; often great quantities of metal thread were used. Napkins were mainly used to clean fingers during meals, but were also used as decoration and as covers. Their designs were consistently inventive."@en . . . . "0.6048"^^ . . . . "Towel/Napkin of linen embroidered with silk in double darning on the diagonal and double running in a line with metal thread in double darning on the diagonal and fishbone stitch.\nThere are 11 silk ends per selvedge.\nAlong each end is a narrow band of blocks worked in pink and green silk and metal thread. Above this are three large bowls stacked with smaller bowls filld with pink and light pink and interspersed with green leaves."@en . "At the end of the 18th century embroidery designs began to develop into rigid and heavily stylised borders for towels and napkins. The colours of 18th and 19th century embroideries were originally very bright but many have faded to pleasing pastel shades; often great quantities of metal thread were used. Napkins were mainly used to clean fingers during meals, but were also used as decoration and as covers. Their designs were consistently inventive."@en . "Towel/Napkin of linen embroidered with silk in double darning on the diagonal and double running in a line with metal thread in double darning on the diagonal and fishbone stitch.\nThere are 11 silk ends per selvedge.\nAlong each end is a narrow band of blocks worked in pink and green silk and metal thread. Above this are three large bowls stacked with smaller bowls filld with pink and light pink and interspersed with green leaves."@en .