Cleveland Museum of Art
Tapestry with golden lions and palmettes
1200s or earlier
Dye analysis has been done on some of the colored yarns in this fragment. The orange, scarlet, and pink dye comes from the safflower plant, the red and darker pink dye from the bark of a small evergreen tree called the <em>China brasiliensis</em>, and the blue dye from the indigo plant.
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