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"title": "The Twain Shall Meet",
"description": "The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).",
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"title": "Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries",
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"title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106",
"description": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 12, 2016-May 22, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2016-04-12T04:00:00"
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"id": 447668,
"title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106",
"description": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 18, 2021-November 13, 2022).",
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"description": "Masterpieces of the Weaver's Art. Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 4, 1957).",
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"description": "(Dikran G. Kelekian [1867\u20131951], New York, NY sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "Seen as a prized decoration, designs like this were often cut out of older textiles and stitched onto unisex linen tunics.",
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"description": "The folded edges on all four sides of this luxury silk fragment indicate that it decorated a unisex linen tunic. The symmetrical deer with suckling fawn flanking a simplified central tree of life continues an ancient theme in a naturalistic style. The roundel is connected on all four sides and displays heart-shaped floral borders. This fragment is said to have been found in Akhmim, Egypt, south of Cairo, where, during the 1880s, numerous related silk fragments were excavated.",
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"citation": "Beckwith, John. Caskets from Cordoba. [Victoria and Albert Museum Publications, 1958-1960]. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1960.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "Held, Shirley E. Weaving: A Handbook for Fiber Craftsmen. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.",
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \"The Twain Shall Meet.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59.",
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