Border
date: label: Date
content: 6th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragmentary remains of wide tapestry border containing polychrome figures. Extremely fine, even weaving. Among the figures are a human face with a black turban in three-quarter profile; a fantastical face with rabbit ears; vegetal motifs. The center panel is set off by a blue dovetailed border. Within it, on a blue ground, pale polychrome forms possibly a row of interconnected crosses. At the bottom, a red cross in a natural halo.
label: Description
content: In red, pink, blue and black dyed wools on a natural-colored ground.
place: label: made in
content: Egypt
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-7
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Border
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: warp: S-spun wool; wefts: S-spun linen, S-spun wools Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry) with dovetail interlocking and open slits
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 41 x 16.5 cm (16 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.)