A superb silk runner woven with green end borders worked with tile patterns, the field with a leafy lattice, the lateral borders worked with tile-shaped lozenges with calligraphic inscriptions, Persia, 17th century

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A superb silk runner woven with green end borders worked with tile patterns, the field with a leafy lattice, the lateral borders worked with tile-shaped lozenges with calligraphic inscriptions, Persia, 17th century

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See Errera, 383D for a fragment almost identical to the border of this textile, with the exception of the placing of diacritical marks and details of centre of star cartouches .
See Plate 139, Islamic Carpets and Textiles in the Keir Collection, F Spuhler for another closely related fragment

The colours of both these fragments appear to differ from this example.

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