My presentation will contribute to the study of Islamic textiles by reappraising textual sources in light of the recent abundance of work on the material history of these textiles. There have been many recent studies of the material history of Islamic textiles by scholars such as Patricia Blessing, Corinne Mühlemann, Eiren L. Shea, Amanda Phillips, among others. At the same time, however, textual research into Islamic textiles has been sorely lacking. The landmark study remains R. B. Serjeant’s Islamic Textiles (1972), although Stillman and Stillman’s Arab Dress (2003) is an important contribution. My work will update these classic texts by combining an analysis of historical texts in the context of recent work on preserved textiles done by art historians. For this presentation, I will present on textile, cloth, and dress and they present themselves primarily in the fatwa collection of the Mamluk-era jurist: Zakariya al-Ansari (d. 926/1520). It situate al-Ansari’s discussions of textile objects with discussions in other legal texts including hisba-manuals and legal commentaries. This presentation will hope to show the relevance of legal sources to the study of material culture and everyday life.