Aleppo vintage Aghabani type embroidery (115 x 120cm)

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115 x 120 cm  //  3ft 9" x 3ft 11"

'Aghabani' is the name given to a type of Levantine / Syrian silk embroidery. The name purportedly from two Aleppo families said to have started this type of work, Al-Agha and Al-Bani. Worked in yellow silk chain stitch on a fine lightweight silk ground following an ink drawing. From another piece it was possible to read in badly written Arabic script the word ﺣَﻠَﺐ 'Haleb' (Aleppo) proving attribution.

• 1950s (French colonial Syria)

Ref. 16903

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