Tiraz embroidery
date: label: Date
content: 10th–11th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ivory linen plain cloth ground (probably originally white) with inch high Arabic characters, embroidered with untwisted red silk in satin and chain stitch and reading "Patient, Benevolent", part of a sentence which repeats attributes of the Deity as in the Koran. Left selvage present.
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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 Marian Hague
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1939-37-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Tiraz embroidery
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk on linen Technique: satin and chain embbroidery stitches on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 20.1 x 31.3 cm (7 15/16 x 12 5/16 in.)