Javanese court batikOttoman silks have been much less exported, and the numerous surviving royal kaftans have simpler geometric patterns, many that includes stylized “tiger-stripes” beneath three balls or circles. Other silks have foliage designs corresponding to these on Iznik pottery or carpets, with bands forming ogival compartments a preferred motif. By the sixteenth century Persian silk was utilizing smaller patterns, many of which confirmed relaxed garden scenes of gorgeous boys and girls from the same world as these in modern album miniatures, and sometimes identifiable scenes from Persian poetry.
Instead of being surrounded by rich colours and precious metals, the …
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