Publication Date
12th-13th century AH/18th-19th century AD
Publication Place
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Udaya Museum; Rabat
Subject
A silk dupatta, embroidered with silk and gold thread.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الطول: 330 سم؛ العرض: 54 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
D 1588
Record ID
object;ISL;ma;Mus01_B;50;ar
Library Location
Udaya Museum; Rabat
Date
12th-13th century AH/18th-19th century AD
Notes
A long shawl embroidered on part of its sides and on both ends. The decoration in these last two fields is distributed over two fields preceded by a decorative relief, which includes spiral decorations such as vine tendrils, embroidered with silk threads and braided with gold threads. The first field appears in the form of a floral frieze in which wild roses alternate, such as the eagle rose with a cruciform pistil in the middle, with simplified hyacinth flowers that take the shape of a toothed horseshoe and are surrounded by florets. The second field is furnished. With a bouquet of roses emanating from a wide, wavy line of green silk, it serves as a decoration for the twigs, from which simplified petals and flowers emerge. The field ends with an oval medallion that suggests a pomegranate, while the floral decorative elements that adorn the sides evoke small butterflies. The women embroidered all of these decorative elements with threads of joyful and harmonious colors, made more beautiful by the black silk thread that surrounds them. Shawls of the same type were hung around the frames of mirrors during the holidays to ward off the evils of the evil eye. If the floral decorative elements and floral compositions were derived from Ottoman embroideries in Algeria, the extremely free simplification distanced them from the original models and made them a special type.
Sample Text
Naima El Khatib-Boujibar “Shawl; Mirror Accessories (Towel)” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;ma;Mus01_B;50;ar
