Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei, Vol. 1 [Art History of Silk Weaving, Vol. 1]
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Volume 1 of Otto von Falke's history of silk weaving art (1913), serving as the explanatory text to the plate series on the textile collection of the Royal Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. It follows silk and related textiles from antiquity through the high Middle Ages: Greek and Roman weaving and tapestry, late antique textiles from Egypt (Antinoe, Achmim, Alexandria), Coptic work, Byzantine and Syrian silks, Sassanian Persian and East Asian silks, and Islamic silks of Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Spain and Sicily. The front matter has catalogs of plates with signet symbols, dates, places of origin and holdings, and the book is illustrated with 212 figures of textile fragments, vase paintings, silver vessels and reliefs used for stylistic dating. The text is art-historical, focused on pattern, style and provenance, with some remarks on technique, dyes and materials.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1913
- Language
- German
- Pages
- 213
- Archive notes
- Rebuilt March 15, 2003