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Piece number: 8457 at the Coptic Museum in Cairo

Part of a woven piece. Materials: The piece woven with linen threads, ornamented with wool threads. Techniques: tapestry, looped technique with wool and linen threads Patterns: A monochrome design of plants band with a geometric outline . 3rd – 5th century

(yep.. explication technique des "poils"...)

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Young Christ
5th century
Linen
L. 45.5 cm; W. 67 cm
72.126.1


Imagine the scene of this panel in its original glorious indigo color. The youthful orbed Christ, seated on a throne, raises his two fingers in blessing. Christ gazes towards a haloed figure with short hair and abeard, whose Greek inscription names him Simon Peter. The figures are placed within arcades resting on columns; the arched canopies and upholstery are marbled.

This panel was probably part of a much largers scene, entailing a frieze depicting the enthroned Christ at the center, flanked by apostles. Similar arrangements occur on Christian sarcophagi such as that of Junius Bassus, now in the Vatican.

This hanging may have had a liturgical use. It was made at a time when early Christian subjects were rendered in classical forms. The figures' ample garments, Christ's rhetorical gesture, his rounded face in three-quarter view, his curly hair and soft glance, and the illusion of depth created by foreshortening Christ's hand and foregrounding the flanking candelabra--all bespeak the grammar of late antiquity.

The cloth was dyed by the resist printing method, which Pliny describes in his Natural History (35.42) as purely Egyptian. Examples of this technique have been found at Akhmim and Antinoe depicting both mythological and Christian themes and date as early as the fourth century. The creator of this plain-weave linen cloth would have spread a protective layer of wax or clay on the area intended to be left undyed, or reserved. It is not known if brushes or some other types of tools were used to apply the resist substance, but the technique is similar to the making of batik fabrics. When the resist was dry, the cloth was plunged into a vat of indigo dye ♥

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Message13 Déc 2012, 14:55

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Coptic Egyptian Textile Fragment

CULTURE / REGION OF ORIGIN: Coptic / Byzantine Egypt
DATE: 4th – 7th Century CE
DIMENSIONS: 23 x 14 cm (9.05 in x 5.51 in)

DESCRIPTION: A large fragment of Coptic tapestry textile, representing a section of tunic with double clavi in a brownish-purple hue, probably in wool, on a possibly undyed woolen ground. The clavi terminate at each end in three prongs and are bordered with a tight wave pattern that encloses the central repeating pattern of oval medallions containing vegetal motifs. The weft threads terminate and hang loose on the reverse behind the clavi. A fine example.

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Coptic Egyptian Textile Fragment

CULTURE / REGION OF ORIGIN: Coptic / Byzantine Egypt
DATE: 4th – 7th Century CE
DIMENSIONS: 26 x 17 cm (10.23 in x 6.69 in)

DESCRIPTION: A large fragment of Coptic textile, featuring outer bands of deep red fabric in between which has been overlaid a broad central panel of finely worked highly stylized zoomorphic patterns, including fish, birds, rabbits and others creatures, in black on a beige possibly undyed ground, the central panel flanked by borders of repeating chevrons and polygons. The material appears to be linen throughout and the technique appears to be double faced taquete. A large and impressive example with strong well preserved colors.

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Fragment of a blue wool overtunic decorated with a tapestry-woven clavus. From the Fayum. c. 500-700AD Bolton Museum

Egyptian linen has been renowned since antiquity for its quality, but few well-preserved garments survive from before about 300AD. This is due partly to the technique of mummification: bodies were wrapped in bandages, often made by tearing up old clothes. Textiles from the Dynasti
c period are usually made of plain linen; brightly coloured clothes were the preserve of the very wealthy.

The most spectacular examples of textiles in the Museum’s collection date to the Coptic period, from about 300AD onwards. With the spread of Christianity in Egypt came a change in burial customs. Instead of being elaborately mummified and wrapped in bandages, people were buried within a few days of death, and dressed in their finest clothes, preserving them intact for their discoverers. Baggy wool and linen tunics with clavi (stripes) of tapestry-woven decoration were worn by men and women, and silk began to be imported from Asia

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Object: Textile Fragment
Materials: Wool
Measurements: Not given
Provenance: Egypt
Date: Fourth century
Categorize: Hanging
Purchase history: Unknown
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Description: An extraordinarily detailed depiction of a duck, against a water backdrop. Great effort has been taken to model the creature with a variety of amazing vivid colours. Shades of aqua colouring are unusual amongst the textiles so far surveyed. Note the colouring around the beak and the head, which could almost be said to be “impressionistic” rather than naturalistic. Made only from wool, this piece is not formulaic but appears to have been painted with oils

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Coptic textile, Egypt, 6th century fragment of a yellow tunic decorated with a two-colour tapestry

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(à part cela, "on ne savait pas teindre le lin") :mrgreen:

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Egyptian textile museum


Silk textile design from Alexandria, 6th century.


Some of the most colourful and obviously charming textiles to come out of what we would see as Ancient Egypt were those produced during the early Christian era. These Coptic textiles, named after the Christians of Egypt, the Copts, have little that seem at first to be immediately identifiable as belonging to Egypt. Many of the designs and pattern work derive from sources closer to Greece, Rome and Byzantium than they do Thebes or Memphis. However, these textiles come from an era when Egypt was first a province of Rome and then of the Greek Byzantine Empire and so the outside influence is obviously much stronger than that of Egypt itself.

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early (4th - 6th century) Coptic textile ♥

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Fragment
Date: 5th century
Geography: Egypt
Medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave
Dimensions: 17 15/16 in. high 11 5/8 in. wide (45.5 cm high 29.5 cm wide)
Classification: Textiles

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Fragment of a Hanging
Object Name: Fragment of a hanging
Date: 5th century
Geography: Egypt
Medium: Linen, wool; tapestry-woven
Dimensions: 40.25 in. high 62.25 in. wide (102 cm high 158 cm wide)
Classification: Textiles

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surprenant, non? ;-)

Fragment
Date: 5th century
Geography: Egypt
Medium: Linen, wool, tapestry-woven
Dimensions: H. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm) W.2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm) Classification: Textiles

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Fragment of a Tunic
Object Name: Tunic
ragment Date: 5th century
Geography: Egypt
Medium: Wool
Dimensions: H. 31 in. (78.7 cm) W. 13 3/8 in. (34 cm) Classification: Textiles

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Fragment
Date: 4th century
Geography: Egypt
Medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave
Dimensions: 25.25 in. high 19.75 in. wide (64 cm high 50 cm wide) Classification: Textiles

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