المؤلف
Unknown (maker)
مكان النشر
Egypt (made) Akhmim (found) -
الموضوع
Textiles Africa
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Height: 405mm, Width: 320mm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
449-1887
رقم السجل
449-1887
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
ملاحظات
This is a fragment from a much larger textile, of a type known to have been used for cushion and mattress covers. Here, the thickness points to a mattress cover. The weave, known in antiquity by the Greek term, polymita, literally '[woven with] many heddles', was the first with mechanically repeating designs to have been developed in the western world and may have had its origins in Alexandria. It had been known since the first century and this example, with three field designs and three border designs, each in two contrasting colours, provides a small repertoire of typical patterns: the various bands would have been arranged symmetrically down the length of the cover.
نص عينة
Transliteration,
İlişki
Henry Wallis
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Weft-faced compound plain weave Wool Plain Weave
Fiziksel açıklama
Fragment from a mattress cover, woven in blue and red wool on a buff-coloured wool ground. The piece is in weft-faced compound weave. The design shows a range of typical patterns: diaper patterns of rosettes within octagons, quatrefoils within lozenges, and fret-ornament in blue; and curved leafy stems, zig-zag lines and geometrical ornament, in red. These patterns are arranged in horizontal bands, with plain stripes between.
Üslup
Egyptian Late Antique
