Author
Unknown (maker)
Publication Place
Egypt (made) Akhmim (found) -
Subject
Tapestry Fashion Textiles Africa
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 58cm, Width: 53.5cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
727-1886
Record ID
727-1886
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
This square fragment was excavated at burying grounds in Akhmim, Upper Egypt, in the late 19th century. It is from a linen cloth with a panel of tapestry weave in purple wool, with details in yellow wool and undyed linen thread. Antiquities were unearthed in Egypt and brought to England as early as the 17th century, but the objects seem to have been found more or less accidentally and not as the result of archaeological excavation in a modern sense. The Egypt Exploration Fund was founded in 1881 and the era of systematic and scientific excavation was inaugurated.
İlişki
Henry Wallis
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Plain woven linen and tapestry woven linen and wool Linen Wool Plain Weave Tapestry Dyeing
Fiziksel açıklama
Fragment from a plain woven, undyed linen cloth, decorated with a square panel tapestry woven in purple and yellow wools, and undyed linen. The panel is decorated with an interlace pattern, surrounded by a border filled with a wavy foliated stem, in purple wool with details picked out in undyed linen thread and the spaces between the interlace in yellow wool. The tapestry has been woven using only some of the warps, with the surplus left floating loose behind the weaving, to avoid bulging.
Üslup
Late Antique
