Woven Silk
7th/8th century (made)
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Strip of silk, woven with a pattern of circles placed close together, each having in the middle, a four-petalled rose, an inner border of small quatrefoils and an outer border of curved stems. In the intervening spaces are rosettes. The pattern is in red, green, yellow and white on a red ground.
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| Materials and techniques | Dye samples of this textile were analysed as part of the project “Caracterización de las 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). Analysis was conducted by Enrique Parra at the Alfonso X El Sabio University, Madrid. The dyes were analysed through high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), extracting threads with a thickness varying between 5 and 1mm by means of 100 µL of methanol/hydrochloric acid/water 1:2:1.
The results for this textile were as follows:
Green - Indigo & Madder
Yellow - Not detected
Straw coloured - Not detected
Reddish - Not detected |
| Brief description | 700s, Tunisian; Erment, compound weave |
| Physical description | Strip of silk, woven with a pattern of circles placed close together, each having in the middle, a four-petalled rose, an inner border of small quatrefoils and an outer border of curved stems. In the intervening spaces are rosettes. The pattern is in red, green, yellow and white on a red ground. |
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| Object history | Purchased from the Reverend Greville John Chester |
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| Summary | Strip of silk, woven with a pattern of circles placed close together, each having in the middle, a four-petalled rose, an inner border of small quatrefoils and an outer border of curved stems. In the intervening spaces are rosettes. The pattern is in red, green, yellow and white on a red ground. |
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| Accession number | 1385-1888 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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