Tiraz with gold, probably from a wide sleeve, 1013-1020. Creator: Unknown

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Tiraz with gold, probably from a wide sleeve, 1013-1020. Creator: Unknown

Tiraz with gold, probably from a wide sleeve, 1013-1020. This textile with expensive gold foil is among the rarest surviving examples among thousands of medieval textiles with historic or generic inscriptions in Arabic, known as tiraz. Tiraz were " emblems of dignity, " the prerogative of sovereigns and those they wished to honor. This inscription is masterful. The tall letters are woven with silk thread on only two warps in slit-tapestry weave while the ground was woven with pure gold foil wrapped around a silk core that was not beaten in--to show off its brilliance. The text begins with a prayer and provides the name of Imam al-Hakim, but lacks the place and date of manufacture. The decorative bands feature brilliant gold birds facing simplified trees alternating with popular palmette-decorated hearts. This tiraz fragment may have been part of a wide sleeve that functioned as a receptacle because clothing didn t have pockets

Media ID 19647801

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