9/ Shroud of St josse’
Ante 961
Sllk
Louvre , Paris
Although sources recall it as plentiful , very litte of the extremely lavish and much vaunted production of high-quality woven fabric from this period remains to the present-day .The most important survivor is this, the so-called ‘Shroud of the woven pieces that can be ascribed to this time ,represents an advance on the vocabulary of Sassanid textiles . This superb example, however-reaching the West in the guise of a precious mantle wrapped round a relic conserved in the cathedral at Caen demonstrates how over time the Sassanid in fluence became less and undoubted prestige, the idiom remains relatively static ; not only in the line of camels that shows little propensity to move. The date is gleaned from the inscription which, as in a tiraz, can include the name of the caliph or some other important detail. Here the record is of a Khorasan emir who passed away in 961