Two fragments of a tunic neck panel

Inventory number: FT 14
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont

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

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