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Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Rectangular, browned, linen white textile embroidered with dark blue providing a background to a central eight-point star flanked by two smaller stars. These stars appear flower-like with primarily red, yellow, blue, and green shapes. The blue makes its own abstracted star-like shape, before extending into a solid field of blue interrupted only by two flanking squares from which extend two outlines like quill nibs pointing in towards the stars and patterned with the same colors.

Furnishing textile

1600s–1700s

Africa, North Africa, Morocco, Chefchaouen, Moroccan embroiderer

silk on linen tabby ground, embroidery
Overall: 181.6 x 33 cm (71 1/2 x 13 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1226
Location: Not on view
  • ?–1916
    Mr. Jeptha Homer Wade II [1857–1926] and Mrs. Ellen Garretson Wade [1859–1917], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1916–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Paydar, Niloo Imami, and Ivo Grammet. The Fabric of Moroccan Life. Indianapolis, Ind: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2002. p. 64
    Denamur, Isabelle, Pierre Ferbos, and Louise Rogers Lalaurie. Moroccan textile embroidery. Paris: Flammarion, 2003. p. 86
    Alaoui, Rachida. Florilège de la broderie marocaine. [Milan]: Skira, 2011. p. 162, 172
    Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. "Textile stories from North Africa." HALI 224 (Summer 2025): 54-61. Reproduced: p. 60-61, fig. 12
  • Arts of the Maghreb: North African Textiles and Jewelry. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 2024-October 12, 2025).
    Embroideries from the J.H. Wade Collection, November 1–December 5, 1928. Cleveland Museum of Art
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