Woven Silk
1350-1400 (made)
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Silk dress fabric of a compound weave with multiple patterning wefts and two warps, one of which is a binding warp (lampas). Buff-coloured ground, pattern in green and gold of palm trees, and female demi-figures holding barking dogs and lions.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Lampas, weft-patterned and brocaded. Extended tabby in the ground, binding warp anchoring the silk pattern wefts (green and white) in tabby and the brocading wefts (gilded membrane strip twisted around a white core that appears to be linen) in 1-3 Z twill. |
| Brief description | 1350-1400, Italian; lampas, weft-patterned and brocaded |
| Physical description | Silk dress fabric of a compound weave with multiple patterning wefts and two warps, one of which is a binding warp (lampas). Buff-coloured ground, pattern in green and gold of palm trees, and female demi-figures holding barking dogs and lions. |
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| Gallery label | Silk lampas
Woven in silk, brocaded in silver-gilt thread
Italian: about 1390 - 1400
From the Bock Collection
Fanciful and slightly humorous patterns of this type were much favoured by Italian silk designers in the second half of the fourteenth century. |
| Object history | Purchased (Bock Collection) |
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| Accession number | 8263-1863 |
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| Record created | January 3, 2008 |
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