Islamische Stoffe aus ägyptischen Gräbern in der Islamischen Kunstabteilung und in der Stoffsammlung des Schlossmuseums
This 1927 Berlin publication by Ernst Kühnel, issued by E. Wasmuth for the Staatliche Museen's Islamic art department and the Schlossmuseum, catalogues Islamic textile fragments recovered from Egyptian graves. The pictures are grainy black-and-white photographs of cloth scraps showing woven and embroidered bands, with dark motifs on pale ground: scrolling vines, rows of geometric stripes, and Arabic-style inscriptions in tapestry-woven borders. A designer could draw on their repeating border rhythms, stripe sequences, and calligraphic bands for pattern work.
