Title: Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'
Object type: Textile fragment
Date: second half 16th century
Artist:  Ghiyath 
Artist bio: Iranian, Yazd, born ca. 1530
Artist nationality: Iranian
Artist role: Maker
Medium: Silk, cut and voided velvet with continuous floats of flat metal thread
Dimensions: Textile: L. 25 3/4 in. (65.4 cm)
            W. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm)
Mount: L. 30 in. (76.2 cm)
            W. 18 1/2 in. (47 cm)
Classification: Textiles
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1952
Geography: Attributed to    Iran      
Department: Islamic Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY