Antique Ottoman Silk Velvet Yastik Bursa baroque_textiles A Rare Florentine Tassel

A Rare Florentine Tassel

Just look at the detail its breathtaking I have had this exquisite tapestry in my private collection for many years

Perfect for Upholstery

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

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Antique Ottoman Silk Velvet Yastik Bursa baroque_textiles A Rare Florentine TasselBeautiful 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