"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 \"Caracterizaci\u00F3n de als producciones textiles de la Antig\u00FCedad Tard\u00EDa y Edad Media temprana: tejidos coptos, sas\u00E1nidas, bizantinos e hispanomusulmanes en las colecciones p\u00FAblicas espa\u00F1olas\" (\"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 Rodr\u00EDguez Peinado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpt. de Historia del Arte I (Medieval)."@en . . "Spain" . . . . "Cover of green silk velvet, embroidered in various short and crossing stitches with coloured silks and silver-gilt thread (much rubbed) with a circular compartment in the centre, containing a looping geometrical blossom device surrounded by an Arabic inscription, and set within a surrounding geometric interlacing stem framework, beyond which at either end is a small cartouche containing another Arabic inscription set in the midst of a variety of blossom and cross forms, symmetrically arranged and filled in with floral devices, crosses, birds, and a figure. The border is composed of closely-repeated elongated key forms surmounted by groups of small crescents. Tunisian 18th century. L. 2 ft. 11.5 in, W. 21.75 in. \n\nMr. A. Cole's Revise. [1896]"@en . . . "embroidered silk, 1500s, Hispano-Moresque; Velvet ground"@en . . "Cover of green silk velvet, worked in coloured silks and silver gilt thread (much rubbed) with a circular compartment in the centre, containing a geometrical device surrounded by an Arabic inscription. At either end is a cartouche containing another Arabic inscription, and the rest of the surface is occupied by a diaper of octagons and crosses, symmetrically arranged and filled in with floral devices, crosses, birds and a figure. The border is composed of simulated Kufic characters."@en . . . "embroidered silk, 1500s, Hispano-Moresque; Velvet ground"@en . . "Cover of green silk velvet, worked in coloured silks and silver gilt thread (much rubbed) with a circular compartment in the centre, containing a geometrical device surrounded by an Arabic inscription. At either end is a cartouche containing another Arabic inscription, and the rest of the surface is occupied by a diaper of octagons and crosses, symmetrically arranged and filled in with floral devices, crosses, birds and a figure. The border is composed of simulated Kufic characters."@en . "Spain" . "0.53229999542236328125"^^ . . "Cover of green silk velvet, embroidered in various short and crossing stitches with coloured silks and silver-gilt thread (much rubbed) with a circular compartment in the centre, containing a looping geometrical blossom device surrounded by an Arabic inscription, and set within a surrounding geometric interlacing stem framework, beyond which at either end is a small cartouche containing another Arabic inscription set in the midst of a variety of blossom and cross forms, symmetrically arranged and filled in with floral devices, crosses, birds, and a figure. The border is composed of closely-repeated elongated key forms surmounted by groups of small crescents. Tunisian 18th century. L. 2 ft. 11.5 in, W. 21.75 in. \n\nMr. A. Cole's Revise. [1896]"@en . "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 \"Caracterizaci\u00F3n de als producciones textiles de la Antig\u00FCedad Tard\u00EDa y Edad Media temprana: tejidos coptos, sas\u00E1nidas, bizantinos e hispanomusulmanes en las colecciones p\u00FAblicas espa\u00F1olas\" (\"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 Rodr\u00EDguez Peinado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpt. de Historia del Arte I (Medieval)."@en . "383-1894" .