Turban or shawl end with tiraz and gold
Unknown Artist
1094
Medium
plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé
Dimensions
62.3 × 54.6 cm
Classification
Textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Textile Arts Club to commemorate its 30th Anniversary
Accession Number
1965.313
About this artwork
Woven with consummate skill, this very fine linen fabric enriched with silk and gold thread displays small birds amid interlacing bands flanked by Arabic inscriptions. It represents the final artistic and technical height of imperial textiles called tiraz, a Persian word meaning embroidery or decorative work. Here, tiraz refers to textiles with Arabic inscriptions; it can also identify court workshops and their production. The historical Arabic inscription, written in angular Kufic script with d...