SCARF OR GIRDLE
Medieval Middle Eastern Cross Stitch Embroidery, graphed by Rosemary Stecher (Mathilde Eschenbach)

Blue silk on linen. Greek stitch.
Egypt, Mamluk period (mid 13th-early 14th century)
Same counterchanging foliate pattern as the sampler, worked in S-direction in one band, and Z in the other.

Ellis, Marianne Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001. #36 (p. 54).

Accession number EA1993.152 at the Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
The Jameel Centre for the Study of Eastern Art, University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum.