Search Results for: Woven fabrics of silk-waste
it may have come from the word abrang, meaning "watercolor." therefore, abr fabrics can most likely be translated as "watercolor fabrics." from sogdian silk to arab cotton silk samite, th century, pritzer collection, chicago the resist-dyed textiles probably came to central asia with the arab conquest
. before the arab invasion, the region was famous for completely different fabrics – the famous sogdian silk samites, which were the main commodity on the great silk road. after the arab invasion, however, silk samites disappeared. they were replaced by different types of cotton fabrics and, first of...
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