Turkish Kandili type printed cotton (224 x 194cm)

PROPERTY OF THS - IN CONSERVATION

224 x 194cm  // 7ft 4" x 6ft 4"

This Turkish domestic lightweight cotton cloth was possibly originally intended for the top sheet of a  bedcover. 
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 woodblock printing being Tokat close to Izmir in Western Turkey, this being the more probable attribution.




In excellent unused condition - unlined

• mid cent

Ref. 17370