Antique Ottoman Silk Velvet Yastik Bursa baroque_textiles Beautifully Gold and Silver embroidery

Beautifully Gold and Silver embroidery upon a crimson silk velvet ground in a design of scrolling leaves and flowers all edged in metallic cording retaining its original border of silk tassel passementerie

Original Moire silk backing Good antique condition throughout

Sold by the foot (30cm) There are currently 12 feet available

I have two panels available each sold separately

This listing is for ONE

Antique Ottoman Silk Velvet Yastik Bursa baroque_textiles Beautifully Gold and Silver embroideryBeautiful voided silk velvet mat yastik cushion cover . Made in the Ottoman Empire during the 18th century Bursa or Istanbul Skillfully hand woven using natural vegetable dyes. Featuring geometric patterns and symbols of fertility, suggesting that it was perhaps intended as a wedding gift. There is a very similar example in the Minneapolis Institute of Art: https: collections. artsmia. org art 12611 velvet mat turkey (see last photographs on the