Starry Floral Wedding Dress Fragment

Part of a bride’s wedding dress from Bursa (western anatolia, 4th capitol of Ottoman Empire). it is embroidered with gold thread on silk fabric. Embroidered with floral pattern. Circa 1860, mid 19th century. Period of Sultan Abdulmecid.

Framed size: 22×26 cm

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.