SAFAVID, LATE 16TH, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Compare Catalogue Number 19, page 174, Woven From the Heart, Spun From the Soul, Carol Bier, The Textile Museum, Washington, for an illustration of a further example of this silk.

See too her discussion of the influence of English and Dutch Herbariums on the drawing of these silks, mainly through the work of Shafi Abbasi in the years between 1630 and 1670.