Towel

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Part health club, part community center, hammams are not only places to get clean, they are also places of significant social interaction. Social standing could be conveyed through the clothing and adornments worn in the hammam. A number of surviving Ottoman-period towels show that bath accessories, too, relayed subtle messages about the owner’s wealth. Intricate embroidery, sometimes in precious metal threads, conspicuously displayed the status of a bather’s family.

Towel, Linen; embroidered in silk, metal wrapped thread, and tinsel

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Towel, Linen; embroidered in silk, metal wrapped thread, and tinsel
Towel, Linen; embroidered in silk, metal wrapped thread, and tinsel
Towel, Linen; embroidered in silk, metal wrapped thread, and tinsel
Towel, Linen; embroidered in silk, metal wrapped thread, and tinsel
Towel, Linen; embroidered in silk, metal wrapped thread, and tinsel
Towel, Linen; embroidered in silk, metal wrapped thread, and tinsel

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