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    "tec": "embroidery on tabby weave: silk and linen",
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        {
            "id": 125866,
            "description": "Fragment of a Clavus, late 700s–early 800s. Egypt, Abbasid period. Embroidery on tabby weave: silk and linen; overall: 10 x 8.2 cm (3 15/16 x 3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1948.115"
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        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy. \"Late Coptic Embroideries.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>37, no. 3 (March 1950): 46-48.",
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