Antique Block Printed & Hand Painted Quilted Hanging: C19th, Turkey Indian textile The photographs of this panel

The photographs of this panel do not do it any justice

probably French

The panel has an overall patina of age

A sample would have been shown to customers before being embroidered to the size required

signs of wear and an overall patina of age as you would expect from an item from this era

Antique Block Printed & Hand Painted Quilted Hanging: C19th, Turkey Indian textile The photographs of this panelItem Details. From the Ottoman era a beautiful block printed cotton quilt printed in Kandili, an Asian suburb of Istanbul which formally had a significant Greek population where cotton printing went in and by which term these prints are popularly known. Hand printed and painted in pretty soft pinks with a traditional print of flowers and a hanging incense burner, the type that you find in a church or mosque . Originally used as a prayer mat or wall