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Resht|rɛʃt|
The name of a province and town in north-west Iran, used attrib. to designate patchwork made there.
1888A. S. Cole Descr. Catal. Coll. Tapestry & Embroidery S. Kensington Mus. 314 Patchwork of cloth of various colours... Resht work. Persian. 1923Daily Mail 26 Feb. 15 There is also a kind of Persian patch-work called ‘Resht’. It is really an amazingly ingenious mosaic of cloth, only one thickness being used, and was generally arranged in four colours—red, green, grey, and white. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 237/1 Resht patchwork, a type of mosaic patch⁓work produced at Resht, Persia, during the 18th and 19th cent. for covers and prayer-rugs. The designs are inlaid in coloured felts with outlines and details worked in coloured silks in chain-stitch and couched-work. Inferior examples are often not true patchwork, as the small pieces are applied to the ground and not inlaid. |
