Turkish Kandili blue block printed cotton (76 x 80cm)

SOLD (FM)

76 x 80 cm  //  2ft 6" x 2ft 7"

Hand block printed lightweight domestic cotton cloth, possibly originally intended as a headscarf or some other utilitarian purpose.

Kandili is an Asian suburb of Istanbul, which formally had a significant Greek population where cotton printing went on and by which term these prints are popularly known. The other larger centre of wood-block printing being Tokat close to Izmir in Western Turkey.

Lined with a cotton cloth mount.



• mid cent


Ref. 16882