Harold Keshishian's Textile Rug
Morning The Mediterranean Collection
This is a Syrian Cope.
Note the square star pattern which is typical of a Syrian
provenance.
(N.B. Normally the celebrant in a
Syriac Christian service wears a cope, which they call a
Phayno, over the shoulders and fastened in the front. The
exception being when the celebrant is also the Prelate
then an oversized cope is worn over the head as a hood
that drapes over the shoulders, this then would be called
a masnaphto. This cope is of the size to be worn by a
normal celebrant.)
HK with Christopher's assistance shows
us the construction of the original type of Turkish
Towel.
HK explaining a Bursa silk towel. This
one was interesting for the inscriptions at each end.
I thought this one was towel ends but
it is actually the ends of an embroidered Bursa silk
waist surround.
This is am embroidered panel of a
woman's undergarment from Epirus.
HK and Kirk hold a mounted Venetian
towel fragment. The ends of the towel were worth
preserving even when the rest was not. Christopher is
holding a fragment of a Venetian bed curtain seen
directly below.
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curtain seen here would of draped over a frame
acting as sort of an old-fashion mesquite net.
They were woven in 8 foot strips which were wider
at the bottom and then would taper in as they
went along. This was caused by the tightening of
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This mihrab is actually a
piecework of fragments from 75 to 200 years or
more old. These were tatted together for the
tourist trade.
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Embroidery from the Greek Island of
Spyros.
This piece is a Syrian
silk sash.
HK demonstrates how this would have
been worn.
Oriental Rugs the O'Connell Guide
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