Embroidery
1000-1299 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Fragment from a tunic in plain woven undyed linen, decorated with a tapestry woven clavus in black and red silks and linen, which terminates in arabesque embroidered in red and white-blue silk. The tapestry band is decorated with a repeated kufic inscription on a floral ground, and has a small area of red at the top.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Plain woven linen, tapestry woven silk and linen, silk embroidery |
| Brief description | Fragment of a tunic, linen with tapestry woven and embroidered decoration, Egypt, possibly 11th-15th Century |
| Physical description | Fragment from a tunic in plain woven undyed linen, decorated with a tapestry woven clavus in black and red silks and linen, which terminates in arabesque embroidered in red and white-blue silk. The tapestry band is decorated with a repeated kufic inscription on a floral ground, and has a small area of red at the top. |
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| Credit line | Given by Robert Taylor, esq. |
| Bibliographic reference | A.F. Kendrick, Catalogue of Muhammadan textiles of the Medieval Period (London, 1924): 28 No. 922, Pl. 8 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 2103-1900 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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