Made in Arabic
macramé
المِقْرَمة
A linen hanging from Chefchaouen in Morocco, embroidered in coloured silk with a column of large medallions in red, green and blue. Arabic miqrama is an embroidered veil or cover; Turkish took it as makrama, a towel or napkin, then Italian macramè and French, and English macramé, where it became the name of the craft of knotting cord.
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- an embroidered hanging, Chefchaouen, Morocco, ca. 1800
The path between languagesmiqrama → makrama → macramè → macramé
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ملكٌ عامّ
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