The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Fragment of a Tiraz

Fragment of a Tiraz

932–40
(A.D. 932-940)
silk embroidery on linen tabby ground
Overall: 33 x 46.4 cm (13 x 18 1/4 in.)
Gift of George D. Pratt 1932.31
Location: not on view

Description

The design consists of a broad five partite decorative band with geometric ornamentation in red, red and green, and yellow and dark blue, and a single line of Arabic text embroidered in red on the plain ecru linen cloth. This inscription, extremely damaged and fragmentary, has been deciphered only in part.
  • ?-1932
    George Dupont Pratt [1869-1935], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1932-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.), and Ernst Kühnel. Catalogue of Dated Tiraz Fabrics: Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid. Washington, DC: National Pub. Co, 1952. p. 11 ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
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