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Textile, The Call to Prayer: The Islamic Adhan

This is a Textile. It was designed by Nadia-Anne Ricketts and produced by BeatWoven. It is dated 2018 and we acquired it in 2019. Its medium is silk, linen, gold-coated pure silver metallized yarn. It is a part of the department.

It is credited Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 281.3 × 141.6 cm (9 ft. 2 3/4 in. × 55 3/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Textile, The Call to Prayer: The Islamic Adhan; Designed by Nadia-Anne Ricketts (British, b. 1979); Produced by BeatWoven; silk, linen, gold-coated pure silver metallized yarn; H x W: 281.3 × 141.6 cm (9 ft. 2 3/4 in. × 55 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum; 2019-25-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection.

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