"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 . . . .