Weaving as livelihood, style as status : Ottoman velvet in a social and economic context, 1600-1750

Ottoman gold-brocaded silk velvet (çatma) cushion covers from the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire, about 500 of which survive, are often treated as an undifferentiated aggregate because of their apparent uniformity of structure, materials, dimensions, format and motifs. However,...

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Main Author: Phillips, Amanda
Published: University of Oxford 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.560478