Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment from Funeral Garment or Pall

Date: before 1958
Medium: Silk: lampas weave, brocaded
Culture: Iran
Department: Textiles
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

A wide band of large-scale Kufic inscription repeating the first words from a diwan of poems attributed to the Caliph Ali is brocaded in blue on a tan ground. The inscription runs at right angles to the warp. Above is a narrow guilloche band. Both bands are defined by guard stripes.

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