Altar Cover Piece

Part of an altar cover from İstanbul (last capital of ottoman empire).

İt is embroidered with high quality of gold and silk threads on silk fabric.

embroidered with floral patterns.

Circa 1830, early 19th century.

Period of Sultan Mahmud the 2nd.

Framed size: 33×31 cm

Framed with museum glass

All details about this embroidery are available behind the frame in Turkish and English.

This old Turkish ottoman embroidery fragment has definitely not been cut from an undamaged whole piece, but has obtained from embroidery that has been worned out in sections and in order to preseve its original state it has been framed using acid free paper mat and acid free glass.