Author
Unknown
Publication Date
700
Publication Place
Egypt (made) -
Subject
Africa Archaeology Textiles
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Width: 92.7cm, Length: 139cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
T.98-1922
Record ID
T.98-1922
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
700
Notes
This complete linen cloth has a repeating all-over abstract design woven with a discontinous supplementary weft and fringes at each end. The polychrome wools are still vibrant and strong in colour. Many cloths of this type have been recovered in Egypt although at the present we are not certain of their original function. They were found in burials, most of them already used, either wrapping or covering the dead.
Tarihsel bağlam
The weaving technique is not strictly speaking a brocading but similar to the Swedish traditional weaving called dukagång , which is with discontinous supplementary weft, also called swivel weave. This can easily be confused with embroidery as long ends are left on the back. Weaving took place with back up.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Plain weave with supplementary weft, linen and wool
Fiziksel açıklama
Full width linen cloth with a repeating all-over abstract design 'brocaded' in red, green, yellow, brownish purple, dark blue and pale blue wool. The design is a grid in which nine dots within a lined square are linked horizontally and vertically by straight bars and diagonally by lines of three small squares. The main decoration, framed by a blue line, ceases a little way in from the selvedges and warp fringes. The discontinous supplementary weft is under 1 over 3, 25 - 26 wool bobbins would have required for the weaving.
