Small Levantine vintage embroidery (148 x 21cm)

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148 x 21 cm  //  4ft 10" x 8"

Aleppo Aghabani type embroidery silk on cotton. 'Aghabani' is the name given to Levantine / Syrian silk embroideries.

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.

• 1930s (French colonial Syria)