id:			127888
accession number:	1950.524
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.524
updated:		2025-03-06 12:16:03.745000

Ikat tiraz, 900s. Yemen, San'a, Reign of Rassid Imams. Cotton and gold leaf: resist-dyed warp (ikat); plain weave with inscription; overall: 41.7 x 30 cm (16 7/16 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.524

title:				Ikat tiraz
title in original language:	
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creation date:			900s
creation date earliest:		900
creation date latest:		999
current location:		
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Yemen, San'a, Reign of Rassid Imams
technique:	Cotton and gold leaf: resist-dyed warp (ikat); plain weave with inscription
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Textile
find spot:	
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measurements: Overall: 41.7 x 30 cm (16 7/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	an elaborate Kufic inscription is painted; it has many braided letters and is so damaged that it cannot be read.
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Dr. Emil Delmar [1876–1959], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1950
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1950–
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		127672
	Ikat tiraz, 960–80. Yemen, San'a', Zaydi Imam period. Resist-dyed warp (ikat); plain weave with inscription: cotton and gold leaf; overall: 60.3 x 64.5 cm (23 3/4 x 25 3/8 in.); mounted: 67.9 x 74.3 cm (26 3/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1950.353
	relationship: 	

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CITATIONS

	Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, Etienne Combe, Jean Sauvaget, and Gaston Wiet. <em>Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe</em>. Le Caire: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1931.
	page number: 	vol. IV, p. 174, no. 1544
	url:		

	Wiet, Gaston. 1935. “Tissus Et Tapisseries Du Musée Arabe Du Caire.” <em>Syria</em> 16 (3): 278–290.
	page number: 	p. 287
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	Lamm, C. J. <em>Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East</em>. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1937.
	page number: 	p. 146
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	Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.), and Ernst Kühnel. <em>Catalogue of Dated Tiraz Fabrics: Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid</em>. Washington: National Pub. Co, 1952.
	page number: 	p. 90
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	Golombek, Lisa and Veronica Gervers. "Tiraz Fabrics in the Royal Ontario Museum." In Burnham, Harold B., and Veronika Gervers. <em>Studies in Textile History: In Memory of Harold B. Burnham</em>. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1977.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 92–93, fig. 3
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	Edwards, Holly. <em>Patterns and Precision, the Arts and Sciences of Islam</em>. [Washington, D.C.]: National Committee to Honor the Fourteenth Centennial of Islam, 1982.
	page number: 	p. 54, no. 186
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	Cornu, Georgette, Odile Valansot, and Hélène Meyer. <em>Tissus islamiques de la collection Pfister</em>. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1992.
	page number: 	p. 65
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	Balfour-Paul, Jenny. "Islamic Art, VI, 2(ii)(d), Fabrics, before c. 1250: Spain and North Africa, Yemen." In Turner, J. S. <em>The Dictionary of Art</em>. New York: Grove, 1996.
	page number: 	p. 438
	url:		

	Baginski, Alisa and Orit Shamir. “The Earliest Ikat.” <em>HALI; the international journal of Oriental carpets and textiles</em>. [London] Issue 95, November 1997.
	page number: 	pp. 86–87
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	Bier, Carol. "A Calligrapher's Art: Inscribed Cotton Ikat from Yemen" (2001)
	page number: 	
	url:		http://works.bepress.com/carol_bier/9/

	Bier, Carol. “Patterns in Time and Space: Technologies of Transfer and the Cultural Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge Across the Indian Ocean.” <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 34 (2004).
	page number: 	p. 172-94
	url:		

	Bier, Carol. "Inscribed Cotton Ikat from Yemen in the Tenth Century CE." in International Shibori Symposium, Feng Zhao, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, and Edith Cheung. <em>Resist Dye on the Silk Road: Shibori, Clamp Resist and Ikat</em>. Hangzhou: China National Silk Museum, 2014.
	page number: 	pp. 32–40
	url:		http://works.bepress.com/carol_bier/21/

	Weinstein, Laura, and Emine Fetvacı. <em>Ink, Silk &amp; Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts</em>, Boston. 2015.
	page number: 	p. 36, no.10
	url:		

	Mackie, Louise W. S<em>ymbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	pp. 123, 215. Similar object reproduced: p. 122
	url:		

	"The Ubiquitous Ikat." <em>HALI; the international journal of Oriental carpets and textile</em>s. Issue 200. Summer 2019. London: Oguz Press, 1978- London : Hali Publications
	page number: 	p. 60-63
	url:		

	McWilliams, Mary, and Jochen A. Sokoly. Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums, 2021.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 56, fig. 9
	url:		

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