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Turkish, Turkey Bursa

Towel, late 1800s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown, designer

Culture

Turkish

Title

Towel

Year

late 1800s

Medium

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

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk,
  • metallic yarn,
  • metallic thread,
  • linen

Techniques

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

Dimensions

Length: 259.1 cm (102 inches)

Place

Turkey; Bursa

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Bequest of A. Alice Bridge

Object Number

23.309

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Needle's Excellence

March 24 - June 18, 2000

Turkish Towels

July 9 - October 10, 1993

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Towel with the accession number of 23.309. 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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