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Fez
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About this work
This textile is made of plain weave silk, and embroidered with dyed silk threads and flat, metal strips that pass through both layers of this cloth. The textile is reversible (save for some details on the rosettes). Its form is unusual, but resembles a hanging (note the small loops along the top edge) or doorway partition, with its three flaps suitable to let a breeze pass through. The pattern of broad rosettes is widespread across the Mediterranean in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFez, early 1900s. Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian embroiderer. Silk, metal threads, dye; overall: 78.7 x 38.4 cm (31 x 15 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, 1916.1224
