{"product_id":"boteh-ivory-linen-fabric-by-the-yard","title":"Varanasi Medallion, Ivory \/ Linen Fabric by the Yard","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eSlate-blue borders define the medallions against a near-white ground, holding dark green stems and pale flowers inside. The enclosing shapes read clearly at distance while the plants stay soft; the smaller blossoms and interior linework only resolve close up. The open ground keeps the repeat from feeling dense even though the medallions are closely ordered. At 8 inches each unit registers on its own. Available as wallpaper and fabric by the yard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eThis surviving Varanasi fragment combines silk and metallic-wrapped silk in a compound weave. 'Varanasi Medallion' translates that woven structure into flat colour at an 8-inch half-drop repeat. Each flowering plant sits inside its own pointed border, with smaller floral forms between them. The border, rather than the flower, organizes the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails style=\"margin:0;\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;margin:0;\"\u003eRead More...\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Source\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe enclosure and the plant it holds recall the boteh — the form commonly known in English as paisley — but the characteristic boteh curves at the tip, while this enclosure rises to a point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fragment was woven in Varanasi, India. It measures fifteen inches by fourteen and a half, and combines silk with metallic-wrapped silk in a compound woven structure. It entered The Textile Museum Collection as the gift of Sheridan Pressey Collins and is held as accession 2019.7.4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe museum record is unusually spare. There is no recorded date. No maker is named. The museum record does not name the motif.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRequest a sample.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Specifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSource:\u003c\/b\u003e Textile fragment, Varanasi, India. Silk and metallic-wrapped silk; supplementary-weft patterning, twill weave, compound weave. 38.10 × 36.83 cm (15 × 14½ in.). Gift of Sheridan Pressey Collins. The Textile Museum Collection, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, accession 2019.7.4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDate:\u003c\/b\u003e not recorded by the museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRepeat:\u003c\/b\u003e 8 in. 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