Cap
date: label: Date
content: 9th–12th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Skull cap with flat circular crown, band around the head, of double thickness of undyed linen with embroidered, couched, and quilted decoration. Diamonds around headband with various fillings in forms of herringbone stitch; double guard strips at top and bottom enclosing what may be Islamic inscriptions. Crown divided into four irregular squares containing illegible motifs in forms of herringbone. In natural and blue linen, blue and yellow, pink silk thread; thick bunches of black silk floss caught down by linen thread around borders and crossing crown of hat.
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 Frances Morris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1951-111-26
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Cap
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, silk, wool Technique: embroidered and quilted plain weave