Woven Silk
1300-1400 (made)
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Textile fragment decorated with Arabic inscriptions and scrolling arabesque designs. Woven in coloured silks with two broad bands, the one with an Arabic inscription on a red ground and the other with a repeating arabesque design on a green ground; these are separated from one another by narrow bands, some of which are plain, whilst others are filled in with an interlacing pattern.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk lampas |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile; Fragment, silk lampas with horizontal bands of calligraphy, interlace and palmettes, Granada, al-Andalus, Nasrid Spain, 1300-1400 |
| Physical description | Textile fragment decorated with Arabic inscriptions and scrolling arabesque designs. Woven in coloured silks with two broad bands, the one with an Arabic inscription on a red ground and the other with a repeating arabesque design on a green ground; these are separated from one another by narrow bands, some of which are plain, whilst others are filled in with an interlacing pattern. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Arabic poetic inscription woven into the fabric design.)
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| Object history | Purchased from Dr. R. Forrer for 50 marks. Received by the Museum on 6 Nov 1894. Acquired with 5 Japanese silks. Described by Forrer as 'very fine Arabian silk, Hispano-Moresque, XVth'. Price: £2.10s (from Registers). Neg: 77776. |
| Historical context | Samples of coloured threads from this object have been taken and are being analysed as part of a collaboration between the V&A and the Spanish Research project "Caracterización de als producciones textiles de la Antigüedad Tardía y Edad Media temprana: tejidos coptos, sasánidas, bizantinos e hispanomusulmanes en las colecciones públicas españolas" ("Characterization of Late Antique and Early Medieval textile production: Coptic, Sasanian, Byzantine and Spanish Muslim textiles in Spanish national collections") (HAR2008-04161) directed by Dr Laura Rodríguez Peinado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpt. de Historia del Arte I (Medieval). |
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| Bibliographic reference | Mariam Rosser-Owen, Islamic Arts from Spain, London, 2010, p.58. |
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| Accession number | 821-1894 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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