Fragments from the Tomb of an Unknown Bishop in Saint Denis, Paris
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Margaret Rowe describes thirteenth-century textile fragments from an unmarked bishop's burial found during Sumner Crosby's excavations at the Abbey Church of Saint Denis, now mounted in plastic at the Yale University Art Gallery. She covers the circumstances of the find, the fiber and dye analysis (silk, madder-dyed red, silver-gilt thread on silk core), the plastic embedding conservation, and the vestments. She gives particular attention to a knitted silk glove and to tablet-woven trim bands, with measured descriptions of the mounted band fragments. The article is illustrated with plates of the burial, fragments, glove and bands.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1969
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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