المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
700
مكان النشر
Egypt (made) -
الموضوع
Africa Animals and Wildlife Textiles Death
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Width: 285mm, Height: 108mm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
T.22-1958
رقم السجل
T.22-1958
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
700
ملاحظات
Samite, compound twill fragment in brown and cream. Egyptian, ca. AD700-900. The piece is criss-crossed with thick, floral lines (running vines). In between the diamonds that are created from the lines, are circular medallions. Some contain two birds facing each other with a tree between them and other have two birds facing opposite directions with a tree between them. The fabric is stained and has some holes. 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
Fiziksel açıklama
Samite, compound twill fragment in brown and cream. The piece is criss-crossed with thick, floral lines (running vines). In between the diamonds that are created from the lines, are circular medallions. Some contain two birds facing each other with a tree between them and other have two birds facing opposite directions with a tree between them. The fabric is stained and has some holes.
Üslup
Coptic
