
Collection Online as of August 17, 2022
Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)
Overall: 27.3 x 6.7 cm (10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); Mounted: 34.9 x 14.3 cm (13 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.505
116 Islamic
This prestigious silk band displays a stylized
palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword
and a shield and pursues a lion and a rabbit.
Another fragment with Arabic script indicates
Islamic manufacture. Green and ivory silk wefts
(horizontal threads) dominate, interlaced by warps
(vertical threads) in a diagonal twill weave. A
second inner warp does not come to the surface.
Such compound structures were woven on large
looms with automatic pattern repetition, called
drawlooms.