Silk Textile
Unknown Artist
1900s
Medium
Silk: lampas weave
Dimensions
101.6 × 38.7 cm · mounted: 113.7 × 49.5 cm
Classification
Textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1978.76.a
About this artwork
This textile has a repeated design of goatherds piping to goats in a landscape setting. At the top is an inscription reading: “Work of the servant of the court, Abū al-Quāsim Kāshānī, year 929.” In the Muslim calendar 929 is equivalent to 1523, but this fabric was woven in the 1900s. This textile emulates examples from the Safavid period (1501–1722), regarded as a high point of Iranian culture. A lampas weave is characterized by the combination of two weave structures with two sets of wefts—the ...