المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
600
مكان النشر
Akhmim (made) Egypt (made) -
الموضوع
Textiles Africa Archaeology
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Height: 395mm, Width: 55mm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
299-1891
رقم السجل
299-1891
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
600
ملاحظات
A length of woven silk. Egyptian, possibly Akhmim, ca. AD600-900. The warp is a dark cream and the weft is green and white. The centre of the piece is filled with geometric versions of a man with a raised hand (?) and animals and a tree and a floral icon. It is edged on both sides with a geometric order which appears to taper around the icon at one end of the column. The rest of this end is missing. The piece is stained and has some holes. Similar to 300-1891. 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.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Woven silk Silk (Textile) Weaving
Parçalar
Textile Fragment, Backing
Fiziksel açıklama
A length of woven silk. The warp is a dark cream and the weft is green and white. The centre of the piece is filled with geometric versions of a man with a raised hand (?) and animals and a tree and a floral icon. It is edged on both sides with a geometric order which appears to taper around the icon at one end of the column. The rest of this end is missing. The piece is stained and has some holes. Similar to 300-1891.
