Silk curtain from the Alhambra palace

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image depicts a silk curtain from the Alhambra palace. The curtain is deep red with rectangular gold designs arranged in a grid pattern on both sides of a central strip. The curtain is split vertically down the middle with a long thin strip. The left and right sides have the same design. Each side has four columns of rectangles. The rectangles are gold with intricate geometric patterns. Each column of rectangles contains one square in the center with a smaller, darker red square inside; one long rectangle on the left; one long rectangle on the right; and four short rectangles, two on top and two on bottom. There are two horizontal gold strips near the bottom. At the top of both sides there are decorative white and gold strips. The center strip running vertically down the middle of the curtain is gold with intricate geometric patterns including curved lines and shapes. The background of the image is black.