The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Curtain panel (sitara)
1800s
Overall: 295.3 x 135.9 cm (116 1/4 x 53 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1229
Location: Not on view
Description
During the 1700s, stunning large embroidered door curtains such as these hung across doorways onto interior courtyards of multistoried residences. Light entered through their loosely woven linen ground while the reversible embroidered decoration provided beauty and privacy. Such curtains have three embroidered widths, the third missing here, joined by colorful plain silk ribbons flanking a French floral ribbon in the center.- Victoria and Albert Museum, and A. J. B. Wace. Catalogue of Algerian Embroideries. London: Published under the authority of the Board of Education, 1935. plate 2., no. 5Stone, Caroline. The Embroideries of North Africa. Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1985. p. 88-89, 99,inside front cover
- Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2015-December 19, 2016).Embroideries from the J.H. Wade Collection, November 1–December 5, 1928. Cleveland Museum of Art
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