Decoration from a shawl or furnishing fabric

Inventory number: FT 165
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont

Tapestry shawl or furnishing fabric decoration. Square decorated with meandering motifs in flying thread. On either side, a triangle framing a bouquet of three vine leaves on a mottled background.

Origin:

Egypt

Date:

4th - 6th century

Material:

Linen and wool

Dimensions:

Warp: 17 cm, weft: 35.5 cm

Comparisons:

Cf. FT163, 164.
Coll. J-F Bouvier, inv. S 441.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, inv. 9119.
Musée de Cluny, inv. Cl. 12927B.

Provenance:

Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation

Location:

Musée royal de Mariemont

Inwoven (?) wool and linen tapestry

I. No ground weave


II. Flying thread brocading

Warp:

natural-coloured linen S

Weft:

purple wool S: +/- 37/cm; natural-coloured linen S: details

Weave:

extended tabby: irregular units of 1, 2, 3 or 4 warp yarns

Ribs per cm:

5

Special techniques:

weft-faced tabby, flying thread brocading, vertical weft brocading; hatching: alternately 3 picks wool, 2 picks linen

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