Not currently on display at the V&A

Woven Linen Silk

ca. 1100 - ca. 1299 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Two woven fragments. One fragment of 5 by 4 inches has a badly damaged pattern consisting of three rows of medallions with a red centre containing a small animal motif. The pattern is tapestry woven in red and yellowish silk on a pale blue linen warp. This is sewn on one side to a fragment measuring 3 by 4 inches woven in alternate bands in tapestry and tabby. One tapestry woven band is in orange silk edged with white on cotton warp threads grouped in twos and threes; the other is in green silk edged with orange. Between them is a narrow band woven entirely in cotton, striped white on blue. The stripes in the warp continue through a tapestry woven band to form part of a broad check pattern in white, orange and blue, ending in a fringe.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Woven tapestry of silk and cotton
Brief description
Woven tapestry of silk and cotton, Egyptian, 1100 - 1299
Physical description
Two woven fragments. One fragment of 5 by 4 inches has a badly damaged pattern consisting of three rows of medallions with a red centre containing a small animal motif. The pattern is tapestry woven in red and yellowish silk on a pale blue linen warp. This is sewn on one side to a fragment measuring 3 by 4 inches woven in alternate bands in tapestry and tabby. One tapestry woven band is in orange silk edged with white on cotton warp threads grouped in twos and threes; the other is in green silk edged with orange. Between them is a narrow band woven entirely in cotton, striped white on blue. The stripes in the warp continue through a tapestry woven band to form part of a broad check pattern in white, orange and blue, ending in a fringe.
Dimensions
  • Length: 8in
  • Width: 4in
Credit line
Given by Edmund de Unger
Object history
Registered File number 1963/1433
Production
possibly Fatimid
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
T.109-1963

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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