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Tiraz with gold
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Tiraz with gold

1075–99 · plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé

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About this work

Gold thread forms the background of undecipherable texts and interlaced medallions in two tripartite bands woven with silk in slit-tapestry weave on a dark blue-green sharb linen ground. Sharb is a fine linen, which often formed the ground fabric for ṭirāz. Roosters, hens, and confronted chicks decorate the medallions.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineTiraz with gold, 1075–99. Egypt, Fatimid period. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé; overall: 29 x 14.8 cm (11 7/16 x 5 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1982.103
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