An English adaptation, with added notes by Eugenia Tolmachoff, of Ludolf Stephani's 1881 study of Greek textiles excavated from tombs around Kerch, the Taman peninsula and the Seven Brothers mounds in South Russia, now in the Hermitage. The textiles are grouped as woven fabrics (hats, a garment, a kerchief, a sarcophagus cover and a silk fabric), painted fabrics (a sarcophagus cover with mythological figures and inscriptions, and a fifth-century B.C. painted wool), and embroidered fabrics (a woman's dress with an Amazon and gold-embroidered wool). It discusses the weave and stitch descriptions (rep, twill, velvet-like, chain and satin stitch), dyes, motifs such as ducks and stags, and Dreger's comments on the batik-like painting. It has numbered plates, a sketch map, a glossary of mythological names and a bibliography.

Type

Article

Date

1942

Language

English

Pages

42