Tiraz Textile Fragment
Item
Title
Tiraz Textile Fragment
Description
This is a Tiraz Textile Fragment woven from linen in Egypt. It is an early Islamic fragment that survived (similar to the Red and Green Tapestry Fragment), and tiraz is the term for the inscriptions on the textile. Tiraz textiles like this were used in clothing, carpets, and as furnishing fabrics, just like the Red and Green Woven tapestry Fragment.
Creator
Unknown.
Temporal Coverage
ca. 939-940.
Spatial Coverage
Egypt.
Type
Image.
Date Created
Unknown.
Source
Jochen Sokoly, “Textiles and Identity.” In Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture Volume I: From the Prophet to the Mongols, ed. Finbarr Flood and Gulru Necipoglu (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2017), 276.
Contributor
Farheen Saiyed.
Rights
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public Domain.
