Elephant Medallion Silk in the Cooper Union Museum
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Article from the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club on a medieval silk with an elephant medallion design, formerly in a Spanish church and now in the Cooper Union Museum, New York. It describes the weft-twill technique (single warp, three wefts of white, red and yellow), compares the piece with the Aix-la-Chapelle elephant silk and with Aurel Stein's lion silk from Turkistan, and discusses its dating and attribution (East Iran, 10th-11th century). A frontispiece photograph shows the textile; there are no weaving drafts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1932
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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