Pillow cover with Arabic inscription, 800s. Creator: Unknown
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Pillow cover with Arabic inscription, 800s. Creator: Unknown
Pillow cover with Arabic inscription, 800s. This rare complete Egyptian pillow cover is a masterpiece of contrasting colours. Crimson and blue-green wool alternate in the ground and bird inhabited roundels, supported by mustard-coloured wool and undyed linen woven in tapestry weave. When folded down the center, based on examples from Egyptian burials, four birds form a unit on each side and are appropriately ascending in flight. Above, an Arabic text written in angular kufic script reads, " In the name of God. Blessing from God to its owner. Of what was made in the tiraz." The word tiraz means factory or an Arabic-inscribed textile. This was probably made in al-Bahnasa, the city renowned for colourful wool textiles with figures, as they claimed, from a " gnat to the elephant."
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