LNS 13 R
Woollen carpet of geometric layout, featuring a large eight-pointed star, with borders of cartouches alternating with octagons, field and border incorporating myriads of geometric figures of the 90° system and papyrus plant motifs
LNS 11 T
Silk velvet textile fragment in a pattern of staggered rows of triangular groups of three circles (‘leopard spots’), separated by paired undulating ‘tiger’ stripes; ‘Chinese cloud scrolls’ in the interstices
LNS 98 T
Linen textile panel embroidered in a pattern of tulips and serrated lotuses, square plan of repetition; serrated leaves fill the interstices and the border
LNS 119 T
Silk velvet textile fragment in a pattern of staggered rows of carnation flower-heads, with serrated leaves and diminutive trees in the interstices
LNS 26 R
Woollen carpet, the field with staggered rows of ogival and stellate medallions, the interstices densely filled with foliate and floral motifs; border of half-palmette arabesque enclosing flower-heads
LNS 15 R
Woollen “Shrub” carpet, the field of horizontal orientation, both the field and border with rows of a variety of flowering plants (those of the field staggered, those of the border forming a single straight line)
LNS 10 R
Pile carpet laid out as a four-section garden (Persian, chahar bagh) with representations of flowering trees and flower beds, divided by water channels, and with a central pond with four peacocks
LNS 114 T
Talismanic shirt with decorative roundels, escutcheons and a cartouche filled with pious inscriptions in naskhi and attenuated thuluth, square compartments with the complete text of the Qur’an, and borders with the ninety-nine ‘Beautiful Names’ (al-Asma’ al-Husna) of God
LNS 27 R
Fragmentary multiple-niche pile prayer carpet (saff), the lower fields of the niches with a dense composition of two systems of foliated scrolls, the spandrels of the niches with a composition of half-palmettes and flowers on spiralling stems; preserved main border with an alternation of cartouches and four-lobed compartments filled with floral and half-palmette arabesques
LNS 982 T a
Linen, silk and silver wire textile fragment with rows of affronted birds framing a human face, running hares and dotted rosettes