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