An Azerbaijan silk embroidery, South Caucasus

worked in satin stitch and cross-stitch

B. C. Holland, Chicago

Silk embroidered on natural linen ground. Scattered spot stains and water marks throughout. Some losses to embroidery generally in chocolate browns and in small areas of taupe. Some restitching to the ground in the lower left corner but most areas with losses left untouched and exposing linen ground. Sides bound with later green silk satin. Now stretched and mounted on ivory silk.
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For a related example see David Black and Clive Loveless, Embroidered Flowers from Thrace to Tartary, London, 1981, pl. 13.