EditorialHanging, Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered, Large embroidered panel with a field filled with floral boteh forms and a deep border with open flower heads and curving vines and leaves. The field has an eight-pointed star...
EditorialFragments, Medium: silk and metallic thread on wool foundation Technique: embroidery on twill weave, Boteh shaped fragments. Motifs embroidered in purple, blues, golds, and greens on white ground., India, early 19th century, embroidery & stitching, Fra...
EditorialHanging, Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered, Large embroidered panel with a field filled with floral boteh forms and a deep border with open flower heads and curving vines and leaves. The field has an eight-pointed star...
EditorialShawl, Medium: wool Technique: tapestry weave, Long, very fine twill shawl with deep end borders of elongated boteh forms., India, 18001825, woven textiles, Shawl.
EditorialShawl, Medium: cotton Technique: buttonhole, satin and stem stitches on plain weave; deflected element work, White-on-white embroidered shawl in a sheer fabric with an Indian style border of four floral motifs in large boteh or paisley shapes at each e...
EditorialShawl, Medium: wool Technique: embroidered on twill weave foundation Label: wool embroidery on wool twill weave, pieced together, Square shawl with a solid black center medallion and a vertically and horizontally symmetrical design of elongated boteh o...
EditorialShawl, Medium: wool Technique: 2/2 twill double interlocked tapestry with stem, running and couching embroidery stitches, Square patchwork shawl with a square center containing four squares that are red, green, violet and blue. Each is isolated by blac...
EditorialPrinting block, Medium: wood Technique: wood carved in relief Label: wood carved in relief, Two blocks for printing textiles in a 'boteh' motif joined together at a later date to form a decorative hanging., India, 19th century, appliances & tools, Prin...
EditorialRectangular cashmere scarf with a halved black mirror with multicolored elongated bota and fan palette motifs, Rectangular palm scarf in wool, with a woven pattern on which a halved black mirror and multicolored elongated intertwined feather or boteh a...
EditorialNapkin with stylized pattern of a wreath and 'boteh's', Napkin of white linen damask with a four-sided symmetrical pattern. In the middle a circle from which diagonally, very stylized floral ornaments sprout, on the space between them flower vases. The...
EditorialPrayer rug, Oriental carpet, prayer rug. In the midfield a mihrab with a blue grid and flowers. In the top of the mihrab an amulet-shaped ornament in the shape of a double boteh. Quadruple border, the widest of which is decorated with slanting S motifs...