More Oriental Rug Notes by
Barry O'Connell
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.
Embroidery from the Greek Island of Spyros.
This piece is a Syrian silk sash.
HK demonstrates how this would have been worn.
More Oriental Rug Notes by Barry
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