Alb Apparel
1190-1220 (made)
Fragment of apparel. Embroidered with silver-gilt thread and coloured silks in underside couching, split stitch and stem stitch on silk in plain weave reinforced with linen in plain weave; border of silk in plain weave.
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| Brief description | embroidered, 1190-1220, English |
| Physical description | Fragment of apparel. Embroidered with silver-gilt thread and coloured silks in underside couching, split stitch and stem stitch on silk in plain weave reinforced with linen in plain weave; border of silk in plain weave. |
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| Object history | Halberstadt Cathedral; purchased by the V&A from Canon Franz Bock, 1863. Another fragment from the apparel is in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, museum no. T.767. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Rock, Daniel, South Kensington Museum Textile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-Vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum, museum catalogue, London, South Kensington Museum (London, 1870), p. 149, no. 8226
Dreger, Moritz, Künstlerische Entwicklung der Weberei und Stickerei innerhalb des europäischen Kulturkreises von der spätantiken Zeit bis zum Beginne des XIX. Jahrhunderts: mit Ausschluss der Volkskunst (Vienna, 1904), pp. 179-80, pl. 162d
Schuette, Marie, Gestickte Bildteppiche und Decken des Mittelalters, vol. ii: Braunschweig, die Klöster Ebstorf und Isenhagen, Wernigerode, Kloster Drübeck, Halberstadt (Leipzig, 1930), p. 4
Christie, Grace, English Medieval Embroidery: A Brief Survey of English Embroidery dating from the Beginning of the Tenth Century until the End of the Fourteenth (Oxford, 1938), cat. no. 31
King, Donald, Opus Anglicanum: English Medieval Embroidery, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1963), cat. no. 9
Browne, Clare; Davies, Glyn; Michael, M.A., English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2016), p. 119, Cat. No. 5. |
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| Accession number | 8226-1863 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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