This very unusual velvet pattern bears a close resemblance to the adras, cotton-wefted ikat examples of the first half of the nineteenth century. The modulated background color and deliberate asymmetry are very different from the later, rather stiff compositions of large medallions.
			Wall Hanging, Silk velvet Bukhara, mid-19th century The Guido Goldman Collection Photo by Don Tuttle, ( The American Foundation for Textile, Inc.)