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"title": "Fragment with peacocks in ogival pattern",
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"title": "Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries",
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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.",
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"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \"Medieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy: A Refutation of the Riggisberg Report\". Bulletin Du CIETA, Centre International D'\u00e9tude Des Textiles Anciens (1974) 39\u201340.",
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"citation": "Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"Reevaluating the Date of the \"Buyid\" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis.\" Ars Orientalis 22 (1992): 1\u201341.",
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"citation": "Baker, Patricia L. Islamic Textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1995.",
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"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
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