Decoration from a shawl or furnishing fabric

Inventory number: FT 164
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont

Fragment of a linen shawl or furnishing fabric, decorated with a disk, edged with a ribbon decorated in flying thread. The ribbon has a chain motif and extends on both sides as interlaces.

Origin:

Egypt

Date:

4th - 6th century

Material:

Linen and wool

Dimensions:

Warp: 17 cm, weft: 30 cm

Comparisons:

Cf. FT 163.
Coll. Choron (cat. The rich Life and the Dance, UIP 2015), inv. A13: interlaced ribbon.

Provenance:

Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation

Location:

Musée royal de Mariemont

Woollen and linen tapestry inwoven in a linen cloth

I. Ground weave

Warp:

natural-coloured linen S: 25/cm

Weft:

natural-coloured linen S: 15/cm

Weave:

warp-faced tabby

II. Wool areas

Flying thread brocading

Warp:

linen S

Weft:

purple wool S: 56/cm; natural-coloured linen S: details

Weave:

extended tabby: irregular units of 2 and 3 warp yarns

Ribs per cm:

9

Special techniques:

weft-faced tabby, flying thread brocading, vertical weft brocading

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