Tapestry through the Ages: Tapestry in Egypt
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Reprinted excerpt from Adele Coulin Weibel's Two Thousand Years of Textiles (Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952) that opens the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin series on tapestry. It defines tapestry weaving and traces it in ancient Egypt, from the linen cloths in the tomb of Thutmose IV through the Hellenistic introduction of wool wefts, Syrian influence, and Coptic textiles of the first millennium AD. An editorial note at the end announces a planned symposium series on tapestry weaving. Most pages are photographs and drawings of tapestry fragments, a loom, and an Egyptian-style weaving silhouette.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1957
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
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