Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 12. (Budapest, 1970)

IPARMŰVÉSZETI MÚZEUM — MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS - Egyed, Edit: On a Textile from the Safavid Period

Fig. 4. Weaving of a double texture stuff made at Yazd (Ph. Ackermann: Weaving technics, Pope, op. cit. p. 2202) The works of art bear the most general marks on the basis of which their age and place of origin can be defined.

20 Considering the complicated weaving technic, textiles with compound patterns of this kind are to be found mainly on knotted carpets rather than on woven fabrics. Without doubt relationship can be discovered to a velvet dated to the late 16th c, which belongs to the Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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. Though the designs include not only animal fights but human figures on horseback, still the characteristics of the designs show much similarity to the patterns on our coat. In view of the materials made in the great Persian textile centres existing in museum collections, a carnet from N.W. Persia must be referred to. This piece belongs to the collection of Mr. John Rockefeller. In its field animals, mainly in pairs can be seen among plants, but the design of these also suggests another master than the one who designed our coat. On account of its subject represented the pattern of two carpets can be brought in connection with our 20 Aradi Nóra: Iparművészet és társadalmi tudat. (Consciousness of Applied Arts and Social Consciousness.) Üveg, kerámia és porcelán 1966—07. Budapest, 1967. 21 Pope: op. cit. p. 1023. 22 Pope: op. cit. p. 1182.