Furnishing textile (1800s): Art, History and Details

Furnishing textile (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Algerian Embroiderer.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This textile is woven using undyed linen in a technique called a tabby weave. The artist then used red, blue, white, and ochre yellow silk threads to create embroidered floral borders and designs in each corner, topped with several birds. The style of these motifs also strongly resembles Turkish embroideries made in this period.

Object facts

• Title: Furnishing textile
• Date: 1800s
• Creator attribution: Algerian Embroiderer
• Culture: Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian embroiderer
• Type: Embroidery
• Technique: Linen, silk, dye
• Dimensions: Overall: 100.3 x 83.2 cm (39 1/2 x 32 3/4 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1916.1225

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cecil Lubell, ed. Textile Collections of the World: Illustrated Guide to Textile Collections in United States and Canadian Museums, 1976: p. 156.

View the collection record

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