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Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery
The Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge is currently hosting the first major exhibition of Palestinian embroidery in the UK for over 30 years, curated by Rachel…
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Illuminated Numbers 4
Wrapping it up
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August 2023
Illuminated Numbers 3
Mamluk meditations
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A Mamluk Masterpiece
Investigating colour in the Baybars Qur'an
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July 2023
Walls That Speak, part 6
Praise and invocation
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That which must not be named
Traces of wine in a Nasrid handbook
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Patterns Under the Green Dome
The Art of Haft Peykar, part 3
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June 2023
The Andalusi Artist's Palette
A thirteenth-century list
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The Twenty-Ninth Letter
A calligrapher's muse
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Patterns under the Yellow Dome
The Art of Haft Peykar, part 2
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May 2023
On the Roads to Samarkand
Wonders of Silk and Gold
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Blue of Blues
How Lapis Lazuli is prepared
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