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Source Description
This essentially gold-on-gold fragment represents an artistic and technical pinnacle of tiraz woven with silk tapestry decoration around 1100. Expensive gold thread dominates in the decorative tapestry-woven bands in the open plain-weave linen ground. The bands with small roundels alternating with falcons attacking small birds required exceptional skill since they are more densely woven than the surrounding ground. Popular birds and animals of the hunt abound including heraldic eagles and hares. The elegant kufic script is mostly indecipherable.
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Document identity
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127914
label
Tiraz with gold
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127914
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object
title
Tiraz with gold
description
This essentially gold-on-gold fragment represents an artistic and technical pinnacle of tiraz woven with silk tapestry decoration around 1100. Expensive gold thread dominates in the decorative tapestry-woven bands in the open plain-weave linen ground. The bands with small roundels alternating with falcons attacking small birds required exceptional skill since they are more densely woven than the surrounding ground. Popular birds and animals of the hunt abound including heraldic eagles and hares. The elegant kufic script is mostly indecipherable.
date
1094–1101
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79908319
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Textile
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Overall: 36.8 x 91.4 cm (14 1/2 x 36 in.); Mounted: 55.2 x 106.7 cm (21 3/4 x 42 in.)
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Egypt, Fatimid period, reign of Caliph al-Musta‘lī, 1094–1101
accession
1950.55
Source extras
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plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé
tombstone
Tiraz with gold, 1094–1101. Egypt, Fatimid period, reign of Caliph al-Musta‘lī, 1094–1101. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé; overall: 36.8 x 91.4 cm (14 1/2 x 36 in.); mounted: 55.2 x 106.7 cm (21 3/4 x 42 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1950.550
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Textiles
citations
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 694
citation
Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 110, fig. 3.27; Mentioned: P. 111, 116, 215
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:36:11.877000
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127914
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Textiles
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Textiles
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plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé
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