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Fragment with star pattern and griffins
950–1050
- Medium
- silk: plain weave variation with supplementary weft
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- Overall: 40.3 x 30.5 cm (15 7/8 x 12 in.)
- Culture
- Iraq or Iran, Buyid period
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This fragment's design consists of interlaced bands, bordered with inner band of foliate ornament, forming an eight-pointed star with center of floriated cross and flanked in four corner compartments by winged griffins. It was woven in green and white silk. The warp in green silk has two wefts, one of green silk and one of white silk floss for the design.
