Woven Linen Silk
ca. 1100 - ca. 1299 (made)
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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.
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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. |
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Credit line | Given by Edmund de Unger |
Object history | Registered File number 1963/1433 |
Production | possibly Fatimid |
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Accession number | T.109-1963 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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