Burial Cloth (part of three sections) of unboiled, woven ivory silk with satin stripes
- Title
- Burial Cloth (part of three sections) of unboiled, woven ivory silk with satin stripes
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Donor
- Stevens, Blanche Whittier
- Description
- Burial Cloth (part of three sections) of unboiled, woven ivory silk with satin stripes, horizontal and vertical, with laid-in woven bands of floral and bird motifs; colors of peach, purple, blue, green, red and orange vegetable dyed yarns with stripes of metallic threads on either side of the decorative bands; ends are finished with warp fringe.
- Motif
- Birds Flowers
- Work Type
- dolmans (mantles)
- Location
- Albania
- Date
- 1801/1900
- Identifier
- 1952.007.013
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Silk Metallic Threads
- Technique
- Unboiled silk Vegetable dyes Warp fringe Laid-in work
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Sold to the donor by a couple trying to get funds to parents in Albania. No one in the family could explain why this had not been used.
