id: 127888 accession number: 1950.524 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.524 updated: 2022-06-29 09:00:34.843000 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: series: series in original language: creation date: 900s creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 999 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- 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: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 41.7 x 30 cm (16 7/16 x 11 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: an elaborate Kufic inscription is painted; it has many braided letters and is so damaged that it cannot be read. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Dr. Emil Delmar [1876–1959], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1950 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1950– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: The "flame" pattern was dyed on the vertical warp threads before weaving began by tightly binding them to resist dye penetration, and repeated for each color. The process and fabric are called ikat, a Malaysian word which may have originated in South Arabia. Yemeni ikats with historical Arabic inscriptions from the 10th century are among the oldest known. This text, written in kufic script with gold paint outlined in black, is so damaged that it cannot be read. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 127672 Ikat tiraz, 960-980. 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: --- CITATIONS Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, Etienne Combe, Jean Sauvaget, and Gaston Wiet. Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe. Le Caire: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1931. page number: vol. 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Tissus islamiques de la collection Pfister. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1992. page number: p. 65 url: Balfour-Paul, Jenny. "Islamic Art, VI, 2(ii)(d), Fabrics, before c. 1250: Spain and North Africa, Yemen." In Turner, J. S. The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996. page number: p. 438 url: Baginski, Alisa and Orit Shamir. “The Earliest Ikat.” HALI; the international journal of Oriental carpets and textiles. [London] Issue 95, November 1997. page number: pp. 86–87 url: 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.” Ars Orientalis 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. Resist Dye on the Silk Road: Shibori, Clamp Resist and Ikat. Hangzhou: China National Silk Museum, 2014. page number: pp. 32–40 url: http://works.bepress.com/carol_bier/21/ Weinstein, Laura, and Emine Fetvacı. Ink, Silk & Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2015. page number: p. 36, no.10 url: Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. 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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.524/1950.524_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.524/1950.524_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.524/1950.524_full.tif