Woven with consummate skill, this very fine linen fabric enriched with silk and gold thread displays small birds amid interlacing bands flanked by Arabic inscriptions. It represents the final artistic and technical height of imperial textiles called <em>tiraz</em>, a Persian word meaning embroidery or decorative work. Here, tiraz refers to textiles with Arabic inscriptions; it can also identify court workshops and their production. The historical Arabic inscription, written in angular Kufic script with decorative letter bowls and palmette scrolls between shafts, reads: “proximate victory to the servant of God and his close friend Ma‘add Abū Tamīm, the imam Ahmad [Abū] al-Qāsim al-Musta‘lī bi-Allāh and his so[ns]” (upper line), and “Commander of the believers bin [a] l-Qāsim Shā[han] shah . . . the believers . . . the Muslims[?] and the believers[?]” (lower line). CC0 Textile 1965.313 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60780785 https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1965.313-turban-or-shawl-end (Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris). CURRENT: Year in Review: 1965 (Oct 27, 1965); Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club (Nov 21, 1984); Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries (Nov 26, 1991); Islamic art rotation (Dec 16, 2015); Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Egyptian Tombs, 9th - 12th Century (Jan 22, 2022) The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. (Reproduced: p. 213);; The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. (Reproduced: p. 213);; Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984. (p. 18);; Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. (Reproduced: P. 108, fig. 3.25; Mentioned: P. 109, 117, 215);; McWilliams, Mary, and Jochen A. Sokoly. Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums, 2021. (Mentioned: p. 99; Reproduced: p. 98 and 142); Gift of The Textile Arts Club to commemorate its 30th Anniversary Textiles 1094 CM00001096_00001 Turban or shawl end with tiraz and gold three dimensional object CM00001096_0001thm.jpg CM00001096 00001 Egypt, Fatimid period, reign of al-Musta‘lī Overall: 62.3 x 54.6 cm (24 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.) plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé