Wool tunic sleeve decoration

Inventory number: FT 128
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont

Double row of small, decorated medallions, perhaps outlines of busts, with interspersed stylised vine leaves.

Origin:

Egypt

Date:

5th - 8th century

Material:

Linen and wool

Dimensions:

Warp: 16.5 cm, weft: 20 cm

Comparisons:

California Academy of Sciences, inv. 389-2388.
MFA, Boston, inv. 15.434.

Provenance:

Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation

Location:

Musée royal de Mariemont

Woollen and linen tapestry

I. Ground weave

Warp:

yellow wool S: 13/cm

Weft:

yellow wool S: 25/cm

Weave:

weft-faced tabby

Other features:

selvedges: one unit of paired warp

II. Tapestry areas

Warp:

yellow wool S: 13/cm

Weft:

blue, pink, green and yellow wool S: +/- 50/cm; natural-coloured linen S: +/- 56/cm

Weave:

weft-faced tabby

Special techniques:

slit tapestry, eccentric weft, dovetailing

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