Woven Silk
1250-1300 (made)
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Piece of weft-faced compound twill (samite), half silk ?, with ocre-yellow design (paired lions, birds and dragons) on a red ground. Pattern is enchanced with a gold lancé weft.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Weft-faced compound twill; design woven with two <i>lancé </i>wefts, one of those being a metal thread. |
| Brief description | Weft-faced compound twill (samite), half silk ?, with ocre-yellow design (paired lions, birds and dragons) on a red ground |
| Physical description | Piece of weft-faced compound twill (samite), half silk ?, with ocre-yellow design (paired lions, birds and dragons) on a red ground. Pattern is enchanced with a gold lancé weft. |
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| Object history | Purchased, Bock Collection. Said to have come from Halberstadt (apparently a section of the curtain once belonging to the cathedral). Other pieces in Lyon, Berlin, Paris and Nuremberg. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Maria Ludovica Rosati, Le manifatture della seta in Italia nel Basso Medioevo: produzioni seriali al servizio del lusso, in: Fatto in Italia. Dal Medioevo al Made in Italy, Alessandra Guerrini (ed.), Milano, Silvana Editoriale, 2016, p. 54. |
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| Accession number | 1236-1864 |
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| Record created | April 15, 2009 |
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