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Curtain panel (sitara)
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
During the 1700s, stunning large embroidered door curtains such as these hung across doorways onto interior courtyards of multistoried residences. Light entered through their loosely woven linen ground while the reversible embroidered decoration provided beauty and privacy. Such curtains have three embroidered widths, the third missing here, joined by colorful plain silk ribbons flanking a French floral ribbon in the center.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCurtain panel (sitara), 1800s. Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian weaver and embroiderer. Linen, silk, gold, silver, dye; overall: 295.3 x 135.9 cm (116 1/4 x 53 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, 1916.1229
