Fragment of garment with medallion and band
date: label: Date
content: 4th–5th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragment of plain woven linen with in-woven tapestry band and medallion. All very finely and evenly woven. Embroidery along top and a series of multiple picks carried at a time to form ridges near top of fabric. Band: dark brown serpentine set against brown background hatched with natural. In curves, pairs of brown leaves, centers defined by soumak. At one-third length of band a panel containing an undyed bud against a brown ground. Medallion contains two figures, the one at left in short spotted garment - Roman military dress, embroidered at one side of his garment. The one at right holds an owl (Athens). Figures in brown, defined by soumak against same kind of hatched ground. The eyes of these figures are very large and striking because of area of undyed tabby used for the whites. Plain brown outer border defined at edge by soumak. The hatching of the ground in this textile is done in the proper Greek way, by alternate shots of dark and light thread.
place: label: made in
content: Egypt
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-74
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment of garment with medallion and band
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: Warp; S-spun linen. Weft: Z-spun linen, Z-spun wool Technique: plain woven linen with in-woven wool slit tapestry and supplementary weft wrapping
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 17.5 x 42.5 cm (6 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.)