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Fragment with arcade and palmettes
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About this work
Although geometric patterns were fashionable in all media throughout the Islamic world, examples in textiles are the most abundant from Islamic Spain. In this fragment, gold-thread strapwork interlaces to form stars above columns that frame colorful palmette leaves in a fine tapestry weave.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment with arcade and palmettes, 1200s. Spain, probably Granada. Silk and gold thread: tapestry weave; overall: 17.8 x 10.8 cm (7 x 4 1/4 in.); mounted: 26.4 x 19.7 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1952.105
