Roundel with curvilinear palmette tree, from a tunic
600–850
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Roundel with curvilinear palmette tree, from a tunic, 600–850. Egypt or possibly Syria. Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite); overall: 20.6 x 19 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.); mounted: 27.9 x 26.7 cm (11 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.102 This elaborate pattern was woven on a large, early loom known as a drawloom that automatically repeated designs across the width of the fabric.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite)
- Medium
- silk, complementary, weft-faced, twill, weave, inner, warps, samite
- Dimensions
- Overall: 20.6 x 19 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.); Mounted: 27.9 x 26.7 cm (11 x 10 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1952.102
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106, Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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