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Embroidery
Embroidery with gold on velvet. It was used in wedding ceremonies to hold sugar cones. Made in Isfahan.
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Naqdah wedding dress
The top layer is tulle embroidered with gold metal thread. Note the heavy embroidery on the collar. The sleeves end with handmade lace. The under layer is of silk and also heavily embroidered with gold on the chest and at the bottom. The collar, sleeves and hem have bands of naqdah embroidery. Probably from Isfahan.
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Wedding chador
Banu-yi Ashraf's silk wedding chador with tirmah embroidery
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Wedding dress
ِEmbroidered; belonged to Turan Qahrimani, Pari Khanum's mother
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Bridal Bed Cover
Belonged to Khanum Hajib (Nayyir ‘Uzma), daughter of Fasl Bahar Khanum (Iran al-Dawlah) and Hajib al-Dawlah
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Embroidered silk jacket
Part of wedding dress of Nimtaj (Taj al-Sadat) Shaykh al-Islami, daughter of Navvab al-Hajiyah and Mirza Masʻud Shaykh al-Islam and wife of Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam (Dibaj).
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Groom’s wedding outfit
Belonged to Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam Dibaj (Bahram Sheikholeslami’s grandfather); Haj Mir Hasan Shayk al-Islam, his great grandfather (who was also the great grandfather of the bride, Nimtaj Khanum) had the fabric (tirmah) made during the first years of Muhammad Shah's reign.