Cleveland Museum of Art

Tiraz with gold

Date: 1075–99
Medium: plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé
Culture: Egypt, Fatimid period
Department: Textiles
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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