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Textile fragment

Title	Textile fragment
Author	Unknown (maker)
Publication Place	Egypt (made) Akhmim (found) -
Subject	Textiles Africa
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Height: 17.5in (Dimension taken from registers), Width: 23in (Dimension taken from registers)
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	1269-1888
Record ID	1269-1888
Library Location	Middle East Section
Notes	Fragment of a hanging or cover, plain woven linen with looped linen and wool weft pile, Egypt, possibly Akhmim, 4th Century â 6th Century
İlişki	Greville Chester
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Plain woven linen with looped wool pile Linen Wool Plain Weave Looped Pile
Fiziksel açıklama	Fragment of a plain woven undyed linen cloth, possibly a hanging or cover. Selfbands run at regular intervals through the ground fabric (a band of three weft threads every four picks). Additional decoration has been created with looped pile, formed from supplementary dyed woolen weft. The pile decoration consists of a horizontal spiralling band, in alternating turquoise, yellow, red and pink wool, bordered in black. Below this is a face in pink wool, with facial features picked out in red wool (ears, lips, nose), white (eyeballs, teeth) and black (eyebrows, eyes), and hair in two shades of brown wool. This is surrounded by a border in undyed linen pile, with jewelled ornament in red, blue, yellow and turquoise, and then a plain purple wool border. To the right are the remains of an four-petalled rose in red and pink. At the very top of the fragment are two horizontal bands of purple-brown wool weft, each of four weft threads.
Üslup	Late Antique

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Textile fragment

Author Unknown (maker)

Publication Place Egypt (made) Akhmim (found) -

Subject Textiles Africa

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Height: 17.5in (Dimension taken from registers), Width: 23in (Dimension taken from registers)

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 1269-1888

Record ID 1269-1888

Library Location Middle East Section

Notes Fragment of a hanging or cover, plain woven linen with looped linen and wool weft pile, Egypt, possibly Akhmim, 4th Century â 6th Century

İlişki Greville Chester

Malzemeler ve teknikler Plain woven linen with looped wool pile Linen Wool Plain Weave Looped Pile

Fiziksel açıklama Fragment of a plain woven undyed linen cloth, possibly a hanging or cover. Selfbands run at regular intervals through the ground fabric (a band of three weft threads every four picks). Additional decoration has been created with looped pile, formed from supplementary dyed woolen weft. The pile decoration consists of a horizontal spiralling band, in alternating turquoise, yellow, red and pink wool, bordered in black. Below this is a face in pink wool, with facial features picked out in red wool (ears, lips, nose), white (eyeballs, teeth) and black (eyebrows, eyes), and hair in two shades of brown wool. This is surrounded by a border in undyed linen pile, with jewelled ornament in red, blue, yellow and turquoise, and then a plain purple wool border. To the right are the remains of an four-petalled rose in red and pink. At the very top of the fragment are two horizontal bands of purple-brown wool weft, each of four weft threads.

Üslup Late Antique