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Fragment

15th–16th century · Medium: silk Technique: two integrated fabric structures, 5-harness satin patterned by plain weave (lampas)

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Satin ground vertically striped in rose-red, orange-red, dark blue, green and white. A broad rosy-red stripe at left has a large-scale Arabic inscription in yellow (the fabric must be turned 90 degrees in order to read the Islamic inscription). The central white stripe has geometric knot-like design in red (so badly worn that design is almost indistinguishable); the dark blue stripe on the right has arabesques in yellow and red. Narrow white, green, and orange-red stripes border the wider stripes described above. No selvedge present.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
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Credit lineFragment. 15th–16th century. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of John Pierpont Morgan. CC0.

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