Procession for the departure of the mahmal and the kiswah on Legacy-collections Sphere from

A photograph of the procession for the departure of the mahmal and kiswah from a photographic album: ‘The Egyptian mahmal’; with 15 photographic prints. Seen here is the curtain for the door of the Ka‘bah – the largest and most elaborately embroidered of the textiles sent from Cairo to Mecca.