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Woven in coloured silks with two broad bands, the one with an Arabic inscription on a red ground and the other with a repeating arabesque design on a green ground; these are separated from one another by narrow bands, some of which are plain, whilst others are filled in with an interlacing pattern.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silk (textile)","id":"AAT243428"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silk lampas","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"},{"text":"Islam","id":"THES48932"}],"styles":[{"text":"Nasrid","id":"AAT21611"},{"text":"Islamic Spain","id":"x46389"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2009CR5270","2012FE3164","2013GA6366","2017JV1012"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"P085","id":"THES344957"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Woven silk","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Granada","id":"x33073"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1300-1400","earliest":"1300-01-01","latest":"1400-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"17","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"34","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"'I am for pleasure. Welcome. For pleasure am I. He who beholds me sees joy and delight'.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Arabic poetic inscription woven into the fabric design."}],"objectHistory":"Purchased from Dr. R. Forrer for 50 marks. Received by the Museum on 6 Nov 1894. Acquired with 5 Japanese silks.\r\n\r\nDescribed by Forrer as 'very fine Arabian silk, Hispano-Moresque, XVth'.\r\n\r\nPrice: £2.10s (from Registers).\r\n\r\nNeg: 77776.","historicalContext":"Samples of coloured threads from this object have been taken and are being analysed as part of a collaboration between the V&A and the Spanish Research project \"Caracterización de als producciones textiles de la Antigüedad Tardía y Edad Media temprana: tejidos coptos, sasánidas, bizantinos e hispanomusulmanes en las colecciones públicas españolas\" (\"Characterization of Late Antique and Early Medieval textile production: Coptic, Sasanian, Byzantine and Spanish Muslim textiles in Spanish national collections\") (HAR2008-04161) directed by Dr Laura Rodríguez Peinado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpt. de Historia del Arte I (Medieval). 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