Embroidered Towel (Havlu)
19th century
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Embroidered Towel (Havlu), 19th century. Turkey, 19th century. Embroidery: silk, gold and silver filé, and gold strip pushed through silk, bent and pressed into place, on cotton tabby ground; average: 150.9 x 68.6 cm (59 7/16 x 27 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Harold North Fowler Collection 1956.678
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- embroidery: silk, gold and silver filé, and gold strip pushed through silk, bent and pressed into place, on cotton tabby ground
- Medium
- embroidery, silk, gold, silver, filé, strip, pushed, through, bent, pressed, place, cotton, tabby, ground
- Dimensions
- Average: 150.9 x 68.6 cm (59 7/16 x 27 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1956.678
- Credit Line
- Harold North Fowler Collection
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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