Egypt

Carpet Fragment

Mamluk period (1250–1517), late 15th/early 16th century
Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Sehna knots"
93 × 105.1 cm (36.6 × 41.4 in)

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