المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
700
مكان النشر
Egypt (made) -
الموضوع
Africa Archaeology Textiles
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Width: 92.7cm, Length: 139cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
T.98-1922
رقم السجل
T.98-1922
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
700
ملاحظات
This complete linen cloth has a repeating all-over abstract design woven with a discontinous supplementary weft and fringes at each end. The polychrome wools are still vibrant and strong in colour. Many cloths of this type have been recovered in Egypt although at the present we are not certain of their original function. They were found in burials, most of them already used, either wrapping or covering the dead.
Tarihsel bağlam
The weaving technique is not strictly speaking a brocading but similar to the Swedish traditional weaving called dukagång , which is with discontinous supplementary weft, also called swivel weave. This can easily be confused with embroidery as long ends are left on the back. Weaving took place with back up.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Plain weave with supplementary weft, linen and wool
Fiziksel açıklama
Full width linen cloth with a repeating all-over abstract design 'brocaded' in red, green, yellow, brownish purple, dark blue and pale blue wool. The design is a grid in which nine dots within a lined square are linked horizontally and vertically by straight bars and diagonally by lines of three small squares. The main decoration, framed by a blue line, ceases a little way in from the selvedges and warp fringes. The discontinous supplementary weft is under 1 over 3, 25 - 26 wool bobbins would have required for the weaving.
