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Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Hilary Knight in memory of Katharine Sturges and Clayton Knight 1984
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Epigraphic Textile
Epigraphic Textile
The design of this textile panel consists entirely of religious texts and invocations, disposed in wide horizontal bands in thuluth script, alternating with narrow bands in kufic s...
Epigraphic Textile
Epigraphic Textile
On the central section of this textile, an inscription in monumental thuluth script is repeated twelve times. The text comes from the Sura al-Fath (Victory, 48:3): “And that Allah...
Dance belt
Dance belt
362-187Hopi woven belt, faja (TK); wool; l. 239 cm., w. 9 cm.; ca. 1880.\Such belts were usually used by women to secure their dress, but on ceremonial occasions men adopted these ...
Fragment with Two Vines
Fragment with Two Vines
Two inwoven tapestry woven bands run across this textile. The bands take the form of thick undulating vines with grape leaves occurring at regular intervals. Each leaf is preceded ...
Large Cover or Shroud
Large Cover or Shroud
This large textile in tapestry and loop cloth is decorated with wide bands and panels in purple with dense designs of interlace executed in flying shuttle. At both ends of the text...
Fragments of a Textile Hanging with Female Busts
Fragments of a Textile Hanging with Female Busts
This fragmentary tapestry-woven textile depicts five female busts representing well dressed woman interspersed with stylized pink and green palmettes. The exact orientation of thes...
Crystal brooch
Crystal brooch
Crystal brooch' (1997.10) is a more or less square brooch, with a point forward. A piece of wood is covered with textile, which is painted with white acrylics. Graphite has been ap...