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Turkish, Turkey Bursa

Towel, early 1900s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Turkish

Title

Towel

Year

early 1900s

Medium

Cotton, silk, metallic yarns; 2/2 twill weave, supplementary warp loop pile, embroidery

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk,
  • metallic yarn,
  • cotton

Techniques

  • supplementary warp loops,
  • embroidery,
  • embroidering,
  • embroidered,
  • twill weave

Dimensions

139.7 x 75.6 cm (55 x 29 11/16 inches)

Place

Turkey; Bursa

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of John Davis Hatch in honor of Olivia Eggleston Phelps Stokes

Object Number

1991.013.2

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Needle's Excellence

March 24 - June 18, 2000

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Towel with the accession number of 1991.013.2. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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