Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to Fragment Of A Tomb Cover (Iran), 17th–18th century.

Black silk cloth used to drape over Lincoln’s coffin while his body lay in state in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 25, 1865. The same cloth later covered the coffin of President James A. Garfield, who in 1881 became the second president to be assassinated.

Funeral Pall, Abraham Lincoln's, April 25, 1865
black silk cloth.
Division of Political History, National Museum of American History,....
8.2013.2

Central horizontal band of two rows of kufic inscription in mirror image vertically, flanked by bands of rosettes enclosing quatrefoils on one side, roses and stars enclosing quatrefoils on the other side. Incription in white on gold ground; rosettes in blue and gold on a ground of white and gold; stars in rose, blue, white and gold. Guard stripes of red and white.

Fragment (Spain), 1250–74
silk, gilded vellum on silk core.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-978

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Fragment of woven silk with zigzag bands of Kufic script in white on a red ground. The inscriptions are translated as (top to bottom):

There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the prophjet of God (repeated)

Say: He is God alone: God the Eternal! He begetteth not and is not begotten; and there is none like unto him

Allah (repeated) Muhammad (repeated)

Truly we have given thee an abundance; Pray therefore to the Lord, and slay the victims. Verily whoso hateth thee shall be childless

Textile, 16th–17th century
silk.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-381

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Wide-sleeved robe of alaari or waste silk in magenta and white stripes, with subtle stripes of yellow cotton. Elaborate embroidery on the front and back chest in green silk.

Robe, ca. 1900
silk, cotton.
Museum purchase through gift of Paul F. Walter and from General Acquisitions....
2015-17-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.