Textile Fragment

Textile fragment with a Mudejar pattern depicting the Tree of Life and lions on a red ground. Repeat pattern of "pairs of lanceolate leaves with their stems joined to form a small arch, the leaves sweeping outward, curving downward and then turning inward, their lengthened tips meeting and rising within the centre of a triangular enclosure. The merged leaf tips become a conventional palmette, at the base of which are plant forms. At each side of the palmette, which is intended to represent the tree of life, are crowned lions". (See Fig. 116, p. 184 of "Silk Textiles of Spain" by Florence Lewis May.