The lower part of a piece of fine ecru, fringed, linen cloth, decorated with two parallel bands of yellow and blue silk tapestry. The upper band has two mirror-images, pseudo (?)-Kufic inscriptions in yellow on a blue ground, surrounded by stylised ecru interlaces. The lower band is decorated with an undulating yellow ribbon, on either side of which figure ecru abstract motifs (plants? pseudo-inscriptions?)
Origin:
Egypt
Date:
Period unknown
Material:
Linen and silk
Dimensions:
Warp: 46 cm; weft: 65 cm
Comparisons:
MAD, Paris, inv. 26654 and 27453.
Coll. J-F Bouvier, inv. I 67.
Provenance:
Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation
Location:
Musée royal de Mariemont
Linen and silk tapestry
I. Ground weave
Warp:
natural-coloured linen S: 17/cm
Weft:
natural-coloured linen S: 18/cm; yellow silk
Weave:
tabby weave in linen and near the edge 12 picks in yellow silk
II. Tapestry areas
Warp:
natural-coloured linen S: 17/cm
Weft:
blue and yellow silk: 100/cm; natural-coloured linen
Special techniques:
Techniques: slit tapestry, eccentric weft