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Towel
19th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
White solid looped uncut pile except at ends, where on a border of plain weave, a secondary gold weft forms a symmetrical design of palmettes and flower-filled urns, with geometric and highly conventionalized foliate border. Scalloped fringe on ends.
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Details
- Title: Towel
- Date Created: 19th century
- Location Created: Turkey
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Medium: cotton, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft looping and supplementary continuous weft
- Credit line: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
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