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Source Description
This prestigious silk band displays a stylized palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword and a shield and pursues a lion and a rabbit. Another fragment with Arabic script indicates Islamic manufacture. Green and ivory silk wefts (horizontal threads) dominate, interlaced by warps (vertical threads) in a diagonal twill weave. A second inner warp does not come to the surface. Such compound structures were woven on large looms with automatic pattern repetition, called drawlooms.
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118469
label
Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter
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118469
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object
title
Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter
description
This prestigious silk band displays a stylized palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword and a shield and pursues a lion and a rabbit. Another fragment with Arabic script indicates Islamic manufacture. Green and ivory silk wefts (horizontal threads) dominate, interlaced by warps (vertical threads) in a diagonal twill weave. A second inner warp does not come to the surface. Such compound structures were woven on large looms with automatic pattern repetition, called drawlooms.
date
700s
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80013303
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Textile
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 27.3 x 6.7 cm (10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); Mounted: 34.9 x 14.3 cm (13 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)
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Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)
accession
1939.505
Source extras
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Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)
tombstone
Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter, 700s. Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258). Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit); overall: 27.3 x 6.7 cm (10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); mounted: 34.9 x 14.3 cm (13 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.505
collection
T - Coptic
citations
citation
Los Angeles County Museum. <em>2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts</em>. New York : E. Weyhe, 1944.
page_number
no. 11
citation
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. <em>Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East</em>. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
page_number
no. 53, p. 91
citation
Katzenberg, Dena S. <em>Blue Traditions; Indigo Dyed Textiles and Related Cobalt Glazed Ceramics from the 17th Through the 19th Century</em>. [Baltimore]: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973.
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 06:07:47.117000
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118469
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Textiles
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T - Coptic
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Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)
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