White cotton embroidered with red silk, faded.

Weft:  blue and yellow silk.  Weft:  straight inner warp, yellow silk;  binding warps thin neutral bluish green silk.  Design:  symmetrical all-over pattern of stars, "palms"  and four petalled rosettes.  Worn and torn.  Selvedge on one side.

Light tan colored silk ground with a design of two parallel grey bands framed by a dark brown border; each band is divided into squares and rectangles enclosing geometric motifs of the same color of the ground; probably part of a sleeve band (?). Much worn.

Design shows Byzantine influence.  All linen, design woven in brown silk; end of design is embroidered.

Silk of dark and light yellow stripes on which are sewed three square medallions of dark violet and white silk.  These squares are cut from piece of silk on which was an all-over design of symmetrical, conventional plant forms.

Ground of red, design of white, green and light brown, shows two mounted hunters pointing their arrows towards two animals in the lower half the roundel; ground of the border is white with floral motifs of red , green and light brown.

Design shows Byzantine influence. Natural colored linen, with design worked with brown silk.

White cotton embroidered with red.  Twisted warp threads make fringe.

White cotton embroidered with yellow and red silk.  Loose warp threads make fringe.

Eastern Mediterranean

Eastern Mediterranean

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