Cleveland Museum of Art
Silk Fragments with Palmette Blossoms
- Date
- 700s
- Medium
- Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)
- Culture
- Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The stunning pattern of palmettes within diamond-shaped compartments is still visible in this rare four-color silk, despite its fragile state. Small human faces within circles appear at the points of the diamonds.
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