Cloth made from pieces of silk satin

This circular textile was made from striped silk using a kind of patchwork technique, creating a complicated geometric pattern centered on a six-pointed star. The original fabric had a wide salmon-colored stripe and a narrower crimson stripe, which was flanked by moss green stripes contoured with beige.

Although the simple, striped textile did not necessarily come from the Islamic world, and might be a French import, for example, the skilled Middle Eastern craftsman created a little geometric and highly Islamic masterpiece that was presumably used as a cloth on a metal tray.