Full-frontal figures with raised arms, beneath arcades, carrying non-identified objects.
Origin:
Egypt
Date:
7th - 8th century
Material:
Linen and wool
Dimensions:
1) Warp: 6 cm, weft: 10 cm;
2) Warp: 7 cm, weft 8 cm
Comparisons:
MET, New York, inv. 2002.494/851,852, 876.
Louvre, inv. X 4795.
Provenance:
Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation
Location:
Musée royal de Mariemont
Tapestry in linen and dyed wool, details in flying thread
I. No ground weave
Only a tiny fragment of linen weave (warp and wefts) remained on fragment 2)
II. Tapestry areas
Warp:
natural-coloured linen S
Weft:
red, blue, brown, yellow and green wool Z: 80/cm ; natural-coloured linen S: 65/cm
Weave:
extended tabby 2/2
Ribs per cm:
13
Special techniques:
slit tapestry, eccentric weft, vertical weft brocading, flying thread brocading for details;
1) selvedges on both sides;
2) only the selvedge on the top of the border remained.
Dyes analysed:
Weftthread: red Z wool: Armenian Cochineal