Notes on an Early Silk Weave
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An article on a patterned silk of the 6th-8th century in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, showing a youth wrestling a lion. It discusses whether the silk came from Alexandria, Syria or Constantinople, and traces the motif to Roman arena combats, Mithraic bull-sacrifice reliefs and the biblical David. It describes the weave as a compound weft twill with a red warp and wefts in several colors, and ends with a list of related silks in museums and church treasuries. Illustrated with five plates of the silk, a silk fragment from Aix-la-Chapelle, Mithraic reliefs and a silver plate.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1943
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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