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<p>This prestigious silk band displays a stylized palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword and a shield and pursues a lion (see photo) and a rabbit. Another fragment with Arabic script indicates Islamic manufacture.
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Detail of the Lion's Head, Silk Decorative Band with a Hunter (1939.505)
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Green and ivory silk horizontal wefts dominate, interlaced by vertical warps in a diagonal twill weave. A second inner warp does not come to the surface. Such compound structures were woven on large looms with automatic pattern repetition, called drawlooms.</div>
700s <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+700-00-00T00:00:00Z/8</div>
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