Antique Hand Embroidered Copy of a Safavid Garden Embroiderey: C20th Kashmir, India is 19th century bodice couched metallic threads with silk

couched metallic threads with silk thread embroidery worked onto a garnet red silk satin ground

35cm H x 44cm W

they have been dyed in the laharia technique which means ‘wave’

Decorative elements include wonderful parrots

made around 1900

Antique Hand Embroidered Copy of a Safavid Garden Embroiderey: C20th Kashmir, India is 19th century bodice couched metallic threads with silkProduced by Kashleen Fabrics, a workshop based in Kashmir, India, this fine wool and silk embroidery is a copy of a 16th century Safavid Persian garden embroidery. They have a 16th century textile with a very similar design in the V&A, London, from which we believe this has been copied, please see photos. This panel has been embroidered in tambour work chain stitch using fine wools and silks. It has depictions of young men standing in a flower strewn