المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
500
مكان النشر
Egypt (made) -
الموضوع
Textiles Africa Archaeology Death
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
2200-1900
رقم السجل
2200-1900
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
500
ملاحظات
2200-1900 + 2200A-1900: Two fragments probably from a tunic. Egytpian, ca. AD500-800. Samite woven in colours (white, blue, red and brown) on a red background. Both pieces have a strip of a border on the right side. It is of colourful floral icons, guilloche on the outer side and rectangles and circles on the inner side. The larger piece has a circular medallion (vine and leaves border, 13mm wide) with an eagle, with our stretched wings, inside. Below this are two lines and then a mounted horseman with a cloak. He appears to be spearing an animal beneath the horse. The remains of another strip of floral border can be seen to the left of the horseman. The smaller piece has only the horseman (head missing) spearing a lion. 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, Textile Fragment