Decorated Band from a Tunic or Curtain (600s): Art, History and Details

Decorated Band from a Tunic or Curtain (600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This colorful and finely woven band combines motifs of the Byzantine period, such as the bird and flanking palmettes (fan-shaped leaves), with new fashions that emerged with the spread of Islam, such as the roundel with a pearl border.

Object facts

• Title: Decorated Band from a Tunic or Curtain
• Date: 600s
• Culture: Egypt, late Byzantine or early Islamic period, 7th Century
• Type: Textile
• Technique: tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping; undyed linen and dyed wool
• Dimensions: Overall: 8.2 x 24.7 cm (3 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.); Mounted: 14.6 x 30.5 cm (5 3/4 x 12 in.)
• Collection: T - Coptic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1960.275

Collection credit

Gift of The Textile Arts Club

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Annual Report for 1960.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 6 (June 1961): 107–147.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.

View the collection record

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