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XVI. Notice of some Arabic Inscriptions on Textiles at the South Kensington Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

That the collection of textile fabrics at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, is not generally so well known as it deserves to be, is doubtless due largely to the unfavourable conditions under which, owing to want of space, it has now to be exhibited. It is satisfactory to think that this will before long be remedied, for the collection is a remarkably good one. Taken all round, it is probably not surpassed by any other of the kind.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1906

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1 Compare with No. 6 the following specimen in the collection:—Fragment of linen with two narrow banda of tapestry, woven in blue silk and linen thread on the warp threads of the linen, the weft threads having been withdrawn. From a tomb in Egypt. Given by Robert Taylor, Esq. Museum number, 2172–1900. This fragment also bears the names Ma‘add, Abû Tâmîm; El Mustanṣir billâh (a.d. 1036–95). Attention was drawn to it too late for it to be included in the series.