Textile Fragments with Ogival Lattice Pattern

Featured in the ogival lattice design of are confronted creatures from Hindu mythology: in one row, yellow yalis, and in the alternating row, blue makaras. Yali possesses the head ...

Complex silk weaves such as this were woven on draw-looms. Their colorful and finely rendered patterns required careful planning to translate designs onto the loom. The end result ...

An elaborate foliate arabesque fills the ogival compartments carved out by the undulating lattice. The checkerboard surface of the lattice, punctuated with swirling roundels, sugge...

This garment is a fine example of a qizil kimishek (red head veil), a distinctive and exuberant garment from the Karakalpak people of western Uzbekistan. Made by girls as part of t...

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...

Two textile fragments that share red tapestry inwoven bands; these bands feature alternating buff colored birds and stylized plants inside lozenges formed of vines. The vines are n...