Textile with Kufic Inscription, 946–74, Attributed to Egypt, Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave, Textile: L. 15 in. (

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Textile with Kufic Inscription, 946–74, Attributed to Egypt, Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave, Textile: L. 15 in. ( cm), Textiles-Woven, Egypt was home to a number of state run textile factories sponsored by the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad until about 969. These factories produced a cloth known as tiraz—a term that came to refer both to garments with inscriptions and to the workshops that manufactured them

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