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Panel of nakshe (women's trouser)
18th–19th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Polychrome silks, predominantly red and green, solidly worked in cross stitch on cotton canvas in diagonal rows of lozenges separated by narrower diagonal bands; all forms built up of minute floral motifs. Vertical border at one end.
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- Title: Panel of nakshe (women's trouser)
- Date Created: 18th–19th century
- Location Created: Iran
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/111559
- Medium: Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave
- Credit line: Gift of Provident Securities Company from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Crocker
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