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Tabs from a Mamluk banner with fleur-de-lys, blazon, and trefoils
Date: Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517).
Material and technique: linen, embroidered with dark-blue silk; needle-woven openwork in undyed silk; linen backing; with stitching in flax.
Dimensions: 25.5 x 23.5 cm (length x width), along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count), ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter), ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter), additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm (thread diameter).
Source: Ashmolean - Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art Accession no. EA1984.35
