MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EASTERN DOUBLE RUNNING STITCH EMBROIDERY
Graphed by Rosemary Stecher (Mathilde Eschenbach)

Fragment with two bands of the same simple pattern
Silk on cotton (?)
Lebanon, late 13th century

Asi-l-Hadath, Lebanon: History of a Grotto , p. 264, plate 7
Momies du Liban, pp. 244, Had. 89-6

Similar patterns show up in European pattern books of the 16th century, for example in Bassée, plate 82.

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