When was this made?
This textile fragment was woven in Islamic Spain around the year 1100. From the early 7th century through the early 11th century when the Spanish Umayyad dynasty fell, most of the Iberian Peninsula was ruled by the Muslim kingdom, Al-Andalus. As the Spanish Umayyad dynasty collapsed, northern Christian kingdoms began to strengthen and unify: the Reconquista, or efforts by Christian kingdoms to reconquer the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim rule, lasted from roughly the 7th century through the 14th century.
Historically, despite many similarities, the Reconquista is not considered a crusade as it was largely political; it did not have the same religious motivations as the Crusades. Broadly, 11th century Spain was a time of shifting rule with growing Christian power and diminishing Muslim domain. As Christians and Muslims had been harmoniously living along social and economic lines, Christian conquest was in a regard mutually destructive.