Old ottoman mecca textile metal thread embroidery panel for Ka'ba early

Early one and old islamic mecca textile black cotton fabric and red and green color with red and greenall the fabric all the color cotton. On metal thread embroidery panel from the Ka'ba. A part of the kiswa covering the Ka'ba at Mecca. The cotton fabric filled with an inverted radiating inscription in fine metal thread gld color.

The central rosette formed of four times repeated phrase'Ya Allah. The spandrels of pistachio black and red and green cotton fabric applied with silver and gold thread metal plated. A green and the red color fabric border above the the cotton with leafy meander. It, s in good condition for that age hard to found on that cotton fabric on green and red and black cotton.

Size 100 cm x100 cm. Near the al aqsa mosque. Hi there is what the british museum say abut this textile. Square embroidered panels were made to be placed over the. At the four corners of the Kaba below the belt. Because of the words from Chapter 112 of the Quran Allahu al-Samad, God, the Eternal, embroidered within the circle of text. They were also known as.

This example was made of black silk with red silk appliqués embroidered in silver and silver-gilt wire over cotton and silk thread padding. The item "Old ottoman mecca textile metal thread embroidery panel for Ka'ba early" is in sale since Saturday, April 20, 2019. This item is in the category "Antiques\Asian Antiques\Middle East". The seller is "m**7" and is located in Toronto, Ontario. This item can be shipped worldwide.