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Embroidered tiraz

12th–13th century

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Four horizontal bands, the lower three in red and green. The top is divided into squares, each square comprised of four triangles in gree, red, yellow and black. Joinings backstitched in white linen thread. Small eyelets embroidered in red, white, green, blue and yellow silk and white linen. In green band, two points in red, green, white, blue and yellow silk. Almost entire piece quilted in zigzags with red silk thread.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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