Hispano-Islamic Probably Spain or Turkey

Panel

Possibly 15th/16th century
Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, stripes of plain weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, and bands of two- and three-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps terminating in a plied warp fringe with bands of supplementary discontinuous bast fiber warps imitating an attached woven fringe
258.2 × 85.8 cm (101.7 × 33.8 in)

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