Unlike the weavings featured in the previous four exhibitions, this show presents a Near Eastern textile tradition about which nothing has been published and little is known. The exhibition is a first as these textiles have not been displayed or examined by any other institution or gallery. The short descriptive text offered here also provides the first brief examination of them. No other exists and supposedly the few scant published mentions have repeated hearsay and fantasy, like they can be made of silver or they were made during the Art-Deco period.

These misconceptions have created a situation where more mis-information than factual surrounds these unusual wraps or shawls. Even the technique used to make them and exactly what metal was used for the foil strip has not been correctly described. Their unusual technique, a thin narrow metallic foil strip threaded and bent through a previously woven netted linen ground cloth, is unique to these textiles. Rumor has it this foil can be silver but after examining hundreds of examples not one has proven to contain any precious metal. They all have just an ordinary white-metal made into a thin narrow foil and washed or lightly plated with silver.