Silk Fragment
1275 - 1325 (made)
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Lampas silk (diasper) with details brocaded in metal thread. The pattern showing paired parrots and gazelles alternating with palmette ornaments, heads and claws and hooves brocaded in silver. No selvedges.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Monochrome silk lampas with pattern woven (on a tabby ground) in <i>lancé</i> and brocading wefts. Both pattern wefts are bound in tabby by the supplementary, binding warp. Lampases like this one (with the white ground and the prevailingly white pattern - with only some details brocaded) are also known by their historical term diasper. |
| Brief description | Fragment of lampas (diasper) silk showing paired parrots and gazelles with details in brocaded silver. |
| Physical description | Lampas silk (diasper) with details brocaded in metal thread. The pattern showing paired parrots and gazelles alternating with palmette ornaments, heads and claws and hooves brocaded in silver. No selvedges. |
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| Object history | Purchased form Bock Collection. |
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| Accession number | 1274-1864 |
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| Record created | August 4, 2005 |
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