Textile with Kufic Inscription, 946?74, Attributed to Egypt, Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave, Textile: L. 15 in. (38. 1 cm), Textiles-Woven, Egypt was home to a number of state run textile factories sponsored by the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad until about 969. These factories produced a cloth known as tiraz?a term that came to refer both to garments with inscriptions and to the workshops that manufactured them