نویسنده
Unknown
تاریخ انتشار
700
محل انتشار
Egypt (made) -
موضوع
Africa Archaeology Textiles
نوع
دیگر
زبان
نامشخص
دیجیتال
بله
نسخه خطی
خیر
ابعاد فیزیکی
Width: 92.7cm, Length: 139cm
کتابخانه
Victoria and Albert Museum
شناسه دارایی کتابخانه
T.98-1922
شماره ثبت
T.98-1922
محل کتابخانه
Middle East Section
تاریخ
700
یادداشتها
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.
