المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
500
مكان النشر
Akhmim (made) Egypt (made) Syria (made) -
الموضوع
Textiles Archaeology Africa Death
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Height: 196mm, Width: 85mm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
301A-1887
رقم السجل
301A-1887
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
500
ملاحظات
Compound woven silk, samite. Possibly Egyptian or Syrian, ca. AD500-800. The fragment includes smaller panels that have been sewn together with a running stitch. The background is of blue/purple. There are one and a half motifs (cream) on the fragment. The full motif is a circle (33mm diameter) containing small floral motifs and is surrounded by 12 trefoils that connect to eachother. Samite (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
Greville Chester
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Woven silk Silk (Textile) Weaving Dyeing
Fiziksel açıklama
Compound woven silk, samite. The fragment includes smaller panels that have been sewn together with a running stitch. The background is of blue/purple. There are one and a half motifs (cream) on the fragment. The full motif is a circle (33mm diameter) containing small floral motifs and is surrounded by 12 trefoils that connect to eachother.
Üslup
Late Antique