تاريخ النشر
900
مكان النشر
Egypt (made) Istanbul (made) -
الموضوع
Textiles Archaeology Death Africa
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Height: 220mm, Width: 110mm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
292A-1889
رقم السجل
292A-1889
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
900
ملاحظات
Fragment of woven silk. Weft-faced compound, twill weave. Very fragmented. Egyptian or Byzantine, ca. AD900-1300. The top of the piece has a brown/cream, fine striped background. A red floral desgin overlays the stripes and continues down the piece creating a red/cream pattern. Samite (twill woven silk) was thought to originate from Persia under Sassanian rule (AD224-651). It was commonly decorated with pairs of animals and birds and set in pearled lotus roundels. It is often found in Western burials, within church possessions and along the Silk Road. Byzantine weaving workshops took on the samite technique to make it an essential weave of the period. It was a luxury textile of the Middle Ages brought to Europe when the Crusades opened up direct contact with the East. It was forbidden to the middle classes of France under the sumptuary rules c. 1470.
İlişki
Chester
Malzemeler ve teknikler
woven silk Silk (Textile) Weaving Dyeing
Fiziksel açıklama
Fragment of woven silk. Weft-faced compound, twill weave. Very fragmented. The top of the piece has a brown/cream, fine striped background. A red floral desgin overlays the stripes and continues down the piece creating a red/cream pattern.
