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Location: Dar al-Kiswah, Cairo, Egypt
Materials: ink, pencil and watercolour on thick card, ghost-marked with a grid
Dimensions: 325 x 175cm
Accession Number: MSS 1128.8
Other Notes: The Bab al-Tawbah (‘Door of Repentance’) is the internal door of the Ka‘bah, leading to the stairs to its roof.
In this template, the blue represents areas which were to be embroidered in silver wire, the yellow in gilded silver wire. For curtains made in this pattern, see TXT 386.
