The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of January 31, 2023

Striped fragment

1200s–1300s

Egypt or Syria, Mamluk period, 1200s-1300s

Tabby and fancy weave; silk and gold

Overall: 20.4 x 24.2 cm (8 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1919.28

Location

not on view

Citations
Weibel, Adele C. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving (New York, 1944), no. 29, p.4.
Indictor, N., R.J. Koestler, C. Blair, and A.E. Wardwell, "The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from MEdieval Textiles, Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry, " Textile History v. 19, no. 1 (London, 1988) p. 3 - 22.
Baker, Patricia L. Islamic Textiles (London, 1995), 70-71.
"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 2 (1919): 37-38. Mentioned: p. 37 www.jstor.org
Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” Textile History 19 (1). 1988. p. 3-22
Exhibition history

2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).

Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1919.28