Curtain Panel with Design of Horizontal Bands of Geometric Patterns and Arabic Inscriptions in Kufic Script, Spanish, Granada, late 14th century, Mudéjar (c.1100–c.1499) or Nasrid dynasty (1232–1492). Silk, lampas weave; 103.2 × 37.1 cm. Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 52:1939.

This silk panel preserves a riot of controlled color and design in two joined strips with twenty-one bands of pattern. Two horizontal friezes, consisting of nine bands each, separate the two large pattern fields of elaborate eight-pointed stars in a complicated arabesque ground. From the eighth century onward, Spanish weavers produced world-famous silks, continuing a tradition brought to Spain by Muslim conquerors0