Prayer mat

Description

Prayer mat of white cotton decorated with white silk embroidery, whitework, and openwork depicting ewers, symbolic hands and religious inscriptions: Middle East, Iran, 16th or 17th century

Museum reference

A.1892.210

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Prayer mat

Production information

Iran, West Asia

Date

16th - 17th century

Materials

Cotton, Silk

Physical description

White cotton embroidered with white silk

Exhibitions

• Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Bier, C. (ed.) Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 1500 - 1900, Washington, 1987, p. 279 no 79, pp. 280 - 281 no 80

On display

national museum of scotland »
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world cultures, patterns of life