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"tombstone": "Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter, 700s. Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661\u2013750) or Abbasid period (750\u20131258). Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit); overall: 27.3 x 6.7 cm (10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); mounted: 34.9 x 14.3 cm (13 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.505",
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"title": "Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter",
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"department": "Textiles",
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"measurements": "Overall: 27.3 x 6.7 cm (10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); Mounted: 34.9 x 14.3 cm (13 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)",
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"id": 312151,
"title": "2000 Years of Silk Weaving",
"description": "2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).",
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"title": "The Indigo Tradition in Textiles",
"description": "The Indigo Tradition in Textiles. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (December 2, 1973-January 20, 1974).",
"opening_date": "1973-12-02T05:00:00"
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"title": "Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation",
"description": "Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 2001-October 15, 2002).",
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"description": "Masterpieces of the Weavers' Art. Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 3, 1957).",
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"description": "Blue Traditions: Indigo Dyed Textiles and Related Glazed Ceramics from the 17th through the 19th Century. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (December 4-January 20, 1974).",
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"description": "(Adolf Loewi [1888\u20131977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art,",
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"date": "?\u20131939",
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"description": "This prestigious silk band displays a stylized palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword and a shield and pursues a lion and a rabbit. Another fragment with Arabic script indicates Islamic manufacture. Green and ivory silk wefts (horizontal threads) dominate, interlaced by warps (vertical threads) in a diagonal twill weave. A second inner warp does not come to the surface. Such compound structures were woven on large looms with automatic pattern repetition, called drawlooms.",
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"citation": "Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York : E. Weyhe, 1944.",
"page_number": "no. 11",
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"citation": "Weibel, Ade\u0300le Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.",
"page_number": "no. 53, p. 91",
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},
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"citation": "Katzenberg, Dena S. Blue Traditions; Indigo Dyed Textiles and Related Cobalt Glazed Ceramics from the 17th Through the 19th Century. [Baltimore]: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973.",
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