Medallion with a red and green flower

Inventory number: FT 197
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont

A rosette-shaped flower. Four yellow styles spread out from the green centre between four bi-lobed red petals. The fragment probably decorated a furnishing fabric, as in FT 195, 196 and 198.

Origin:

Egypt

Date:

5th - 7th century

Material:

Linen and wool

Dimensions:

Warp: 7.8 cm; weft: 7.5 cm

Comparisons:

Cf. FT 195.
Muséum de Colmar, inv. Ég. Cpt. 96: flower.

Provenance:

Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation

Location:

Musée royal de Mariemont

Linen and woollen tapestry

I. Ground weave

Warp:

natural-coloured linen S: 14/cm

Weft:

natural-coloured linen S: 14/cm

Weave:

tabby

II. Tapestry areas

Warp:

linen S

Weft:

red, orange and green wool S: +/- 36/cm; natural-coloured linen S: +:- 50/cm

Weave:

extended tabby 2/2

Ribs per cm:

7

Special techniques:

slit tapestry, eccentric weft

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