Embroideries and samplers from Islamic Egypt

Name/Title

Embroideries and samplers from Islamic Egypt

Entry/Object ID

NK9288.E55

Description

Shown are rare embroideries and woven striped silks, painted fabrics and knitting from the time of the Tulunid, Fatimid, and Ayyubid, through to the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, up to the Ottoman conquest in 1517.

Collection

Carol Westfall Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

embroidery--egypt, samplers--egypt, textile fabrics--egypt, textile fabrics--islamic, textile fabrics--medieval

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Book

Book Details

Author

Marianne Ellis

Publisher

Ashmolean Museum

Place Published

City

Oxford

Date Published

2001

Call No.

NK9288.E55

ISBN

1854441353, 9781854441355

LCCN

2001431559

Notes

Length: 95