Blouse fragment

Inventory number: FT 167
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont

Scattered floral motifs sewn onto the cloth and decorated with knots. Piece probably intended as a shoulder decoration on the blouses women wore as undergarments, similar to those discovered in the necropolises of Antinoupolis.

Origin:

Egypt

Date:

5th - 7th century

Material:

Linen and wool

Dimensions:

Warp: 20.5 cm, weft: 38.5 cm

Comparisons:

Cf. FT 168, FT 170.
Musée des Tissus, Lyon inv. 24400.512.
Allard Pierson Museum, inv. APM06081.
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, inv. 72.

Provenance:

Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation

Location:

Musée royal de Mariemont

Tapestry decoration sewn on linen cloth

I. Ground weave

Warp:

natural-coloured linen S: 13/cm

Weft:

natural-coloured linen S: 11/cm

Weave:

tabby

Other features:

self-band near both sides of ornaments: 6 x 2 yarns/pick

II. Tapestry areas

Warp:

natural-coloured linen S, single use: 9/cm

Weft:

3 kinds of figures:
1) pink and red wool S: +/- 40/cm;
2) green, yellow and blue wool S: +/- 40/cm;
3) orange and nuances of blue wool S: +/- 40/cm

Weave:

weft-faced tabby

Sewing Yarn:

S2Z linen

Special techniques:

slit tapestry, eccentric weft

III. Embroidery

Special techniques:

knots embroidered between the applied ornaments: pink wool S4Z

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