floor felt; textile

Rectangular cream floor felt with couched motifs, using red, brown and cream silk, horsehair and wool thread, embroidered on one side. The design of the textile consists of a centre panel and a border. The centre panel contains 3 diamond motifs outlined in brown. Each of these surrounds a red cruciform design. The triangular areas created by these patterns are covered with red curvilinear patterns. The border is subdivided by a brown zigzag line. The ensuing triangular fields are filled with brown and red curvilinear patterns.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1983.30
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 78.2283 x 39.1339 in.; 1987 x 994 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wool (textile); silk (fiber); horsehair
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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