*Hundreds of thousands of people travel every year to Mecca to pray inside the Grand Mosque and visit the house of Allah, the Kaaba. Weighing more than 670 kilograms, Quranic verses are beautifully and skillfully embroidered in different calligraphic forms by more than 200 talented artisans onto the kiswa, in threads of pure gold and silver. Kiswas and other sacred textiles are the subject of the latest book released by the Sharjah Museum Department, Islamic Textiles, from the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization. Sold for Dh70 at the museum's shop, the 76-page book is designed in black and gold, and features some of the most sacred and important textiles from Mecca and Madina, as well as the Ottoman period, Turkey and Egypt.
09-03-2014, 06:24 PM
Woven with devotion: the sacred Islamic textiles of the Kaaba
*Hundreds of thousands of people travel every year to Mecca to pray inside the Grand Mosque and visit the house of Allah, the Kaaba. Weighing more than 670 kilograms, Quranic verses are beautifully and skillfully embroidered in different calligraphic forms by more than 200 talented artisans onto the kiswa, in threads of pure gold and silver. Kiswas and other sacred textiles are the subject of the latest book released by the Sharjah Museum Department, Islamic Textiles, from the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization. Sold for Dh70 at the museum's shop, the 76-page book is designed in black and gold, and features some of the most sacred and important textiles from Mecca and Madina, as well as the Ottoman period, Turkey and Egypt.
العرض الشجري