Publication Date
Second half of the nineteenth century
Publication Place
-
World Museum, Vienna
Subject
Silk, thin silver thread
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع : 71 سم ، العرض : 71 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
120.015
Record ID
object;EPM;at;Mus23;17;ar
Library Location
World Museum, Vienna
Date
Second half of the nineteenth century
Notes
The piece is a high-quality silk fabric from Tunisia woven with silver thread and gold thread that was admired at the London World's Fair in 1851. In Tunisia these belts, scarves, headwear or shawls were reserved for the wealthy. Specialists have been organizing themselves into guilds since the Middle Ages to dye and weave imported raw silk. After 1900, the wholesale sale of cheap, industrially produced, imported fabrics took Tunisian silk production out of the market.
Sample Text
"Scarf" within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus23;17;ar
