Embroidered head scarf (1800s): Art, History and Details
Embroidered head scarf at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1800s, plain weave: linen; embroidery, double-running stitch: silk, gilt-metal strips and thread. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Embroidered head scarf (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The edges of this headscarf are embroidered with landscape: a mosque alternates with a Turkish tent with a flowering plant between. In each corner is a medallion formed by a flowering plant surrounding a Turkish tent.
Object facts
- Title: Embroidered head scarf
- Date: 1800s
- Culture: Turkey
- Type: Embroidery
- Technique: plain weave: linen; embroidery, double-running stitch: silk, gilt-metal strips and thread
- Dimensions: Overall: 92 x 92.5 cm (36 1/4 x 36 7/16 in.)
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1916.1254
Collection credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
Further reading listed by the museum
- Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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