المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
900
مكان النشر
Byzantine (made) Egypt (found) -
الموضوع
Textiles Archaeology Africa
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Length: 62mm, Width: 37mm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
8554-1863
رقم السجل
8554-1863
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
900
ملاحظات
Fragment of woven silk, compound twill (smaite). Possibly Byzantine, ca. AD900-1100. Dark blue, almost black, with a geometric pattern closely woven into the piece. 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.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Woven silk Silk (Textile) Weaving Dyeing
Fiziksel açıklama
Fragment of woven silk, compound twill (samite). Dark blue, almost black, with a geometric pattern closely woven into the piece.
