Embroidered towel

1800s Average: 129.5 x 55.9 cm (51 x 22 in.) Source image
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Fine Turkish towels with beautiful floral decoration embroidered across each end are often reversible, and their quality revealed the owner’s wealth and status. A lady was required by Turkish etiquette to use a napkin “daintily over the tips of her fingers,” lest she lose her...

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