Tunic fragment decorated with a tabula

Inventory number: FT 61
Photo Michel Lechien, Musée royal de Mariemont

It is difficult to identify the motif in the centre of this tabula decorating the lower part of a tunic: four-legged animal, a person standing or running? The medallion has concentric rings of wave scrolls, which also decorate the outer border of the square. In each corner is a net design. Same garment as FT 62.

Origin:

Egypt

Date:

5th - 7th century

Material:

Wool

Dimensions:

Warp: 22.5 cm, weft: 28.5 cm

Comparisons:

Cf. FT 62.
Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, inv. 2007.10.0018.

Provenance:

Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation

Location:

Musée royal de Mariemont

Woollen cloth and tapestry

I. Ground weave

Warp:

natural-coloured wool S: 8/cm

Weft:

natural-coloured wool S: +/-42/cm

Weave:

weft-faced tabby

Other features:

FT 61 has a finishing border: warp-ends plied into a cord; near the finishing border: marks of sewing holes: side seams of tunic were probably closed

II. Tapestry areas

Warp:

natural-coloured wool S: 8/cm

Weft:

brown and natural-coloured wool S: 65/cm

Weave:

weft-faced tabby

Sewing Yarn:

wool S2Z

Special techniques:

slit tapestry, eccentric weft, flying thread brocading with wool S; vertical weft brocading with wool 2S

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