textile fragment

Not on Display

Geography:
Syria; Iraq
Culture:
Islamic
Materials:
wool
Collection:
The Textile Museum Collection
Accession Number:
73.524
Credit Line:
Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1947
Date:
744-749
Copyright:
Public domain
Object Type:
Textile
Dimensions:
12.50 H x 49.00 W cm (4 29/32 H x 19 9/32 W in)
Structure:
tapestry weave, dovetailed
Style:
Umayyad
Bibliography:
R. W. Ferrier (Author), The Arts of Persia, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1989, p. 155, fig. 8
Louise W. Mackie (Author), Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2015, p. 56, fig. 2.17
Richard Ettinghausen (Author) and Oleg Grabar (Author) and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina (Author), Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001, p. 63, pl. 94
Ernst Kühnel (Co-Author) and Louisa Bellinger (Co-Author), Catalogue of Dated Tiraz Fabrics: Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., 1952, pl. 1, p. 5
Louise W. Mackie (Author), "Increase the Prestige: Islamic Textiles", Arts of Asia, Arts of Asia, Hong Kong, 1996, vol. 26, no. 1, p. 87, fig. 64
Dorothy G. Shepherd (Author), "An Early Tiraz from Egypt", The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1960, vol. 47, no. 1, p. 13, fig. 4
Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Author), "A Taste for Textiles: Designing Umayyad and Abbasid Interiors, Liminal Fabric: Byzantine and Early Islamic Furnishing Textiles", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Dumbarton Oaks Reasearch Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., 2018, vol. 73, no. 409-432
Gudrun Buhl (Co-Author) and Sumru Belger Krody (Co-Author) and Eliabeth Dospel Williams (Co-Author), Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt, George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., 2019, p. 122
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Exhibition History:
Old Yarns with a new Twist: Familiar Favorites from the Textile Museum's Collection, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, June 08, 1984 - September 23, 1984
Treasures from the Museum's Collection, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, May 25, 1971 - January 08, 1972
From Persia's Ancient Looms, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, January 23, 1972 - September 30, 1972
Dated Tiraz Fabrics, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, July 01, 1963 - August 30, 1963
Ahead of His Time: The Collecting Vision of George Hewitt Myers, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, September 28, 2007 - February 17, 2008
Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington DC, August 31, 2019 - January 05, 2020
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