Length of machine made ikat, with velveteen finish on one side. Five panels of yellow motifs on black with fringed ‘comb’ borders and black on yellow; above and below are a pattern of red rams horns, central, with black hooks on yellow. These are the two outer and one central band, with two bands of flower motifs, yellow, black and red in a diamond with silvered borders each separated by a pyramid of red hooks with three black centres. Chemical dyes. Either a pomegranate flower pattern, anorgul, or a scorpion pattern, chaion, or both.
sample (textileworking: dyeing & printing)
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