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Embroidered towel

Turkish (Balkan)
19th century
Object Place: Balkan, Turkey

Medium/Technique Embroidered cotton
Dimensions 44.5 x 200 cm (17 1/2 x 78 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund
Accession Number48.1263
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionEmbroidered towel, coarse white cotton ground woven with warp stripes of heavier white cotton along across each side border of stylized plants across each end, worked with pink, yellow, and brown wool, blue cotton, and tarnished metal thread, band of open work, knotting, and needle weaving worked with blue, white and pink cotton across each end, deep cream colored cotton fringe, edges three sides of this band, occasional tassels of pink, blue, and white cotton attached to fringe.