Chasuble of St Thomas Becket
Made at Almeria, Spain, in AD 1116



Picture Source: The Fermo Chasuble of Thomas Becket and Hispano-Mauresque Cosmological Silks: Some Speculations on the Adaptive Reuse of Textiles by Annabelle Simon-Cahn



p.18, The Moors - The Islamic West - 7th-15th Centuries AD by David Nicolle:
The so-called Cope of St Thomas à Becket is made of magnificently embroidered material, woven in Almeria in AD 1116. This panel shows an Andalusian huntsman with a hawk on his left hand and carrying what appears to be a long-hafted mace or short spear in his right. He has a turban with a short rafraf or trailing end down the back, and rides in a deep saddle. (Cathedral Treasury, Fermo, Italy)



Plate B, The Moors - The Islamic West - 7th-15th Centuries AD by David Nicolle, based on this panel.

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