Textile Fragment from a Liturgical Vestment of San Valerius

This fragment of a vestment in brocaded silk satin is decorated with tiers of figures of enthroned Christ supported by the Tetramorph and separated by double bar crosses. In-woven ...

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...

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...