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John Brassey · Nov 20, 2025

2manybooks said: ↑

Thank you for the more detailed photos.

As bluumz suggested, the stitch used is called "herringbone". The stitch has been widely known in may embroidery traditions, but the closest comparisons I have been able to find in terms of style and technique are embroideries from the Epirus region of Greece, where the herringbone stitch is a characteristic of one group of embroideries identified by a textile researcher.

Sumru Belger Krody, Chief Curator at The Textile Museum at George Washington University and a specialist in "textiles from the late antique era and from the Islamic world", has written several articles and a book on the embroideries of Epirus and the Greek Islands. She notes that Ottoman motifs like the tulip and carnation were adopted into many Greek embroidery styles, but that the herringbone stitch that is used in Epirus is not a technique used in Ottoman textiles -

"The characteristics of the herringbone-stitch style create an interesting conundrum for us to consider. The group exhibits strong design similarities with Ottoman silk
textiles, but the embroidery technique used is unknown in the Ottoman textile arts."
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/...er=&httpsredir=1&article=1349&context=tsaconf

One of the curious things about your embroidery is the costumes of the figures. It looks like it might be a wedding scene, but neither of the main figures seems to be in woman's dress.

It is an interesting piece. You might want to try contacting Krody, to see if she could provide a more informed attribution.

https://museum.gwu.edu/sumru-belger-krody

this email is from an article published in 2006, so I don't know if it is still viable -
skrody@textilemuseum.org
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Thank you so much for such a comprehensive and generous response. I will follow up on all your advice.

Thanks again
John

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