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Textile fragment

Title	Textile fragment
Author	Unknown (maker)
Publication Place	Egypt (made) Akhmim (found, possibly) -
Subject	Textiles Africa
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Length: 20in, Width: 10in, 1st band width: 2in, 2nd band width: 1.5in
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	258-1887
Record ID	258-1887
Library Location	Middle East Section
Notes	Fragment of a tunic, plain woven linen, tapestry woven linen and wool and wool brocade, Egypt, possibly 6th - 10th Century
İlişki	Greville Chester
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Plain woven linen, tapestry woven wool, wool brocade Linen Wool Weaving Brocading Tapestry Dyeing
Fiziksel açıklama	Fragment of a plain woven, undyed linen tunic, decorated with a set of three clavi alternating between brocaded and tapestry woven dyed wool. The clavi are incomplete at the top, but preserve their pendants at the bottom. On the first and third clavi, a repeated geometric pattern is brocaded in pink, red, orange, and dark green dyed wools; the clavus is outlined and the geometric cross-shaped motifs held within a diaper lozenge of white-beige wool. At the base of each of these is a pendant containing another cross-motif in orange. Between these two brocaded clavi is a tapestry woven clavus; at the centre is a floral ornament in pink, white, orange, dark and light green on a red ground, bordered above and below by a row of faces within roundels, on an orange ground. At the base of this clavus is a pendant with a leaf-shaped ornament in orange, red, yellow and blue. The whole clavus is outlined in dark blue-green. Portions of the wool have been lost from the clavus.

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Textile fragment

Author Unknown (maker)

Publication Place Egypt (made) Akhmim (found, possibly) -

Subject Textiles Africa

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Length: 20in, Width: 10in, 1st band width: 2in, 2nd band width: 1.5in

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 258-1887

Record ID 258-1887

Library Location Middle East Section

Notes Fragment of a tunic, plain woven linen, tapestry woven linen and wool and wool brocade, Egypt, possibly 6th - 10th Century

İlişki Greville Chester

Malzemeler ve teknikler Plain woven linen, tapestry woven wool, wool brocade Linen Wool Weaving Brocading Tapestry Dyeing

Fiziksel açıklama Fragment of a plain woven, undyed linen tunic, decorated with a set of three clavi alternating between brocaded and tapestry woven dyed wool. The clavi are incomplete at the top, but preserve their pendants at the bottom. On the first and third clavi, a repeated geometric pattern is brocaded in pink, red, orange, and dark green dyed wools; the clavus is outlined and the geometric cross-shaped motifs held within a diaper lozenge of white-beige wool. At the base of each of these is a pendant containing another cross-motif in orange. Between these two brocaded clavi is a tapestry woven clavus; at the centre is a floral ornament in pink, white, orange, dark and light green on a red ground, bordered above and below by a row of faces within roundels, on an orange ground. At the base of this clavus is a pendant with a leaf-shaped ornament in orange, red, yellow and blue. The whole clavus is outlined in dark blue-green. Portions of the wool have been lost from the clavus.