Woven Silk
15th century (made)
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Silk Damask. Rows of cross-shaped compartments and star devices ornamented with geometrical patterns and connected by straight lines, in bright colours on a crimson ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk damask
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
Yellow - Gualda
Red - Kermes
Blue - Indigo
White - X |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile. Silk lampas with a geometric pattern, south-east Spain (perhaps Granada), 1300-1400. |
| Physical description | Silk Damask. Rows of cross-shaped compartments and star devices ornamented with geometrical patterns and connected by straight lines, in bright colours on a crimson ground. |
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| Object history | Neg. 68154. Bought with 11 other pieces for £ 100- from Messieurs Harris & Co (Importers of Oriental, Italian and Spanish works of art) |
| 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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| Accession number | 711-1907 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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