Textile Fragment (kemha)

قطعة نسيج كمخا

Textile Fragment; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 52.20.22.

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An Ottoman silk piece in kamkha weave with metal threads, Turkey; mid-sixteenth century. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1

People and things also explored

Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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  1. Metropolitan Museum Open Access
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islam.museum contributors. “Textile Fragment (kemha)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/qita-kamkha/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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