Greek (Epirus)
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This rare, large fragment formed part of a ceremonial bedcover made by a bride-to-be and possibly her female family and friends in Epirus, Greece. Worked with silks in split stitch on homespun linen, the motifs speak to the Ottoman presence in Greece the typically Ottoman motifs of tripartite tulips and serrated hyacinth sprays.
Complete bedcovers with remarkably similar border motifs of tulips and hyacinths are preserved in the Textile Museum, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (81.70, acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1926), and the collection of Roderick Taylor.
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