Fragment with gold leaf lions
Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment with gold leaf lions

1000s–1100s

Silk warp and cotton weft (mulham): plain weave; gold leaf, block printed
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

This is one of the comparatively few printed textiles with extensive use of costly gold to have survived from the medieval period in Iran or Iraq.

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