Yazar
Unknown
Basım Tarihi
700
Basım Yeri
Egypt (made) -
Konu
Africa Archaeology Textiles
Tür
Diğer
Dil
Belirlenmemiş dil
Dijital
Evet
Yazma
Hayır
Fiziksel Boyutlar
Width: 92.7cm, Length: 139cm
Kütüphane
Victoria and Albert Museum
Demirbaş Numarası
T.98-1922
Kayıt Numarası
T.98-1922
Lokasyon
Middle East Section
Tarih
700
Notlar
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.
