1924.123: Textile with Purple Interlace and Simplified Vines
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1924.123
- Title
- Textile with Purple Interlace and Simplified Vines
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 4th-5th century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa
- Period
- Byzantine period, Early
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215256
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Linen and wool, tapestry woven
- Technique
- Woven, mixed technique
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
- Accession Year
- 1924
- Object Number
- 1924.123
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Four parallel stripes of weft-faced weave with purple wool wefts; these are decorated with an interlace pattern created in the ‘flying shuttle’ technique using supplementary weft floats of a buff colored yarn. This interlace pattern is made up of the repeated motif of six or seven loops of a coiling vine with six-petalled flowers inside their interstices. Segments of coiling vine are interrupted by X-shaped motifs inside squares.
A tapestry woven section consisting of a purple scrolling line with purple dots against buff colored area of yarn runs in between each pair of purple stripes. The scrolling lines and dots most likely represent a simplified vine and leaf motif. A strip of plain woven undyed linen runs across the center of the fragment separating the two areas of weft-faced weave. Areas of plain woven undyed linen are also visible in two areas along the bottom of the textile; one is considerably lighter in color than the other.
Verification Level
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