Table Runner or Wall Hanging of a prayer niche made from the embroidered ends of old towels and scarves
- Title
- Table Runner or Wall Hanging of a prayer niche made from the embroidered ends of old towels and scarves
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Description
- Table Runner or Wall Hanging of a prayer niche made from the embroidered ends of old towels and scarves, all of natural linen backed on cotton; embroidery is of silk, gold and silver metallic threads; fragments are skillfully pieced together to form a unified pattern; center has a floral design with bands of various designs in red, greens, pinks, blues and yellows.
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition: Department Purchase
- Motif
- Prayer-niche Hanging floral Saz leaf
- Work Type
- Textile Panel
- Location
- Anatolia >> Turkey
- Date
- 1801/1900
- Identifier
- 1933.003.002
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Linen Cotton Metallic Threads Silk
- Technique
- Woven Embroidered Pulled work
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Some of the fragments are older than 19th century. Purchased in Jerusalem in 1933. The saz leaf was a marsh reed used to craft pens. It was also a plant from the enchanted forest of Turkish myths.
