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Printed and painted cotton curtain
(ستارة قطن مطبوعة ومرسومة)

Title	Printed and painted cotton curtain
Title Original	ستارة قطن مطبوعة ومرسومة
Publication Date:	Late nineteenth century
Publication Place	- World Museum, Vienna
Subject	Cotton, dyes
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع : 135.5 سم ، العرض : 90 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	180.296
Record ID	object;EPM;at;Mus23;44;ar
Library Location	World Museum, Vienna
Date	Late nineteenth century
Notes	Carpe Diem – Seize your day! This is what the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horus, advises. Make the best of your life and seize it when it comes because you never know when you will die. The corresponding advice is to replace the focus on fear of the future with enjoyment of the present, before one is buried in the dirt in the blink of an eye. This advice was seen a thousand years later on the other side of the world in the poetry of the Rubaiyat of Khayyam attributed to the Persian poet Omar Khayyam (1048-1131 AD), which decorated the qalamkar fabrics in the nineteenth century.
Sample Text	“Printed and painted cotton curtain” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus23;44;ar

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Printed and painted cotton curtain

(ستارة قطن مطبوعة ومرسومة)

Publication Date Late nineteenth century

Publication Place - World Museum, Vienna

Subject Cotton, dyes

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع : 135.5 سم ، العرض : 90 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 180.296

Record ID object;EPM;at;Mus23;44;ar

Library Location World Museum, Vienna

Date Late nineteenth century

Notes Carpe Diem – Seize your day! This is what the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horus, advises. Make the best of your life and seize it when it comes because you never know when you will die. The corresponding advice is to replace the focus on fear of the future with enjoyment of the present, before one is buried in the dirt in the blink of an eye. This advice was seen a thousand years later on the other side of the world in the poetry of the Rubaiyat of Khayyam attributed to the Persian poet Omar Khayyam (1048-1131 AD), which decorated the qalamkar fabrics in the nineteenth century.

Sample Text “Printed and painted cotton curtain” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus23;44;ar