Sujet
Fragment with Gold Foil, from a Furnishing Fabric, 300s-400s. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Fragment with Gold Foil, from a Furnishing Fabric, 300s-400s. The rare gold foil and rich purple wool in these two fragments originally enriched a luxurious fabric. Costly gold foil wrapped around a silk core forms the central motif within a diamond, woven in tapestry weave. The surrounding interlacing knot design?achieved with three overlapping squares (in the small fragment) or interlacing squares (in the large fragment)?offered protection from danger and harm. The roundels were woven with extra linen wefts wrapped on the purple ground. Linen pile loops in the ground fabric resisted abrasion in furnishing fabrics and provided insulation in tunics.
Date
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Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F82_481
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
99,7Mo (7,4Mo) / 53,0cm x 47,1cm / 6263 x 5565 (300dpi)