Not currently on display at the V&A

Stole

15th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Spain (made)

Damask, woven in coloured silks on a satin ground. Repeating design of lobed lozenge-shaped compartments formed by white leaves, and enclosing floral and small devices geometrically arranged in green and yellow on a red ground.


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Islam
Object type
Stole
Materials and techniques
Woven silk
Silk
Damask
Brief description
woven silk, 1400s, Hispano-Moresque; Lampas, stylised foliage
Physical description
Damask, woven in coloured silks on a satin ground. Repeating design of lobed lozenge-shaped compartments formed by white leaves, and enclosing floral and small devices geometrically arranged in green and yellow on a red ground.
Dimensions
  • Length: 36in
  • At ends width: 6.75in
Styles
Islamic Spain
Hispano-Moresque
Object history
Purchased from Madame Veuve Miguel y Badia for £ 3.15s.

A slight variation of No. 488-1892
Historical context
Formerly a maniple.

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).
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
1208-1905

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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