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Technique: Handwoven Technique: Handwoven
Title Type
Cotton Cloth with Man and Gazelles
Cotton Cloth with Man and Gazelles

This beige cotton cloth has a center panel with a drawing of a man running with gazelles jumping over his head.

Flax

Damascene Shirt with Fish
Damascene Shirt with Fish

The silk shirt is a type known as Damascene, with floral and plant-like designs and depictions of fish swimming upward.

Shirt

Fragment of Silk Textile
Fragment of Silk Textile

This small silk textile fragment, from the Fatimid period, is decorated with medallions containing animal and plant motifs and inscription bands.

Piece Of Garment

Linen Cover with Silver Threads
Linen Cover with Silver Threads

This square cover is decorated with abstract foliage which form the borders of the cover and are embroidered with fine silver threads. The left lower part of the cover(from the viewer's perspective) is decorated with a crescent design, containing the name, Abbas Helmy.

Flax

Linen Fragment with Designs from Mamluk Metalwork
Linen Fragment with Designs from Mamluk Metalwork

The printed linen fragment has designs inspired by Mamluk metalwork. It is decorated with repeated geometric designs, a wide Naskh inscription band in blue, and four-pointed stars intersecting medallions.

Flax

Linen Fragment with Ducks on Medallions
Linen Fragment with Ducks on Medallions

The linen fragment is embroidered with multicolored silk thread and decorated with, birds, leaves, and Kufic inscriptions.

Flax

Mummy Shroud
Mummy Shroud

The final procedure necessary to complete the mummification process was the careful bandaging of the body with linen bandages.

Mummy Trappings

Piece of Linen Textile Fabric
Piece of Linen Textile Fabric

A piece of linen textile has as its main decoration numerous longitudinal lines with contrasting ornaments. Some of the ornaments are narrow calligraphy and others include geometric decorations and drawings of animals and birds.

Piece Of Garment

Piece of Silk Textile Fabric
Piece of Silk Textile Fabric

This piece of silk textile, renowned as damask, probably represents a part of a complete garment. It is decorated by green ornaments on a blue background, according to the Chinese style.

Silk

Piece of Textile with Painting of Angel and Plants
Piece of Textile with Painting of Angel and Plants

The oblong-shaped piece of textile has a painting of a winged angel and traces of plants. The angel has a wreath of pink flowers around its head and wears a red cloak. Pieces of cloth like this were often used as wall coverings or curtains.

Flax & Wool

Piece of a Linen Textile
Piece of a Linen Textile

This piece of linen textile is decorated with a single-line inscription in black Kufic script. Some parts of the inscription are lacking the embroidery.

Garment / Dress

Silk Textile Fragment
Silk Textile Fragment

This silk textile fragment, from the Fatimid period, has designs of geometric patterns, plant elements, and benedictory inscriptions.

Garment / Dress

Textile Fragment with Blazon of Sword Bearer
Textile Fragment with Blazon of Sword Bearer

The woven yellow textile fragment bears the blazon, of the sword bearer.

Wool

White Linen Tunic
White Linen Tunic

This white linen tunic has ribbons of plant ornaments and wool and linen circles decorated with plant and geometrical shapes in brown.

Loin-Cloth or Tunic

Woven Band made of wool and linen
Woven Band made of wool and linen

A woven band made of wool and linen, printed in dark green and beige. It is decorated with three wide bands.

Textile

Woven Curtain Spun in Carpet Style
Woven Curtain Spun in Carpet Style

This woven curtain is spun in carpet style, and not in the style of tapestry. It is ornamented with floral, geometrical and animal designs. The carpet was found in the excavations of Saint Phipamenon's Monastery in Luxor, beside the Deir El Bahari temple.

Curtain

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