#Textile Fragment

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Textile fragment with a winged lion, 1200-1399, France.

[myhouseofartifacts]

Textile fragment, embroidered linen textile with silk thread, stylised floral motif, Persia, 1500-1600

[theinternetarchive]

fragment of a band with floral motif, spain, undated 1700s.

[aeide]

weaving in fragments

edit to add the sampler now off the loom:

[thatsbutterbaby]

Textile Fragment from the Dalmatic of San Valerius. 13th century/ Made in Spain/Silk, gilt animal substrate around a silk core; tapestry weave

This brocaded textile was originally applied to a dalmatic of Andalusian manufacture. It belongs to a collection of vestments attributed to the cult of Saint Valerius, who was the bishop of Saragossa from 290 until 315. During the eleventh century his body was transferred to the Cathedral of San Vicente de Roda de Isábena in Huesca (Aragon), from where relics were dispatched to other churches. The textiles were made to venerate the saint, with the dalmatic worn on the occasion of his feast day. This textile fragment has an Arabic inscription in naskhi across the bottom: "Good luck and glory and exaltedness and magnificence".

[silkdamask-blog]

Talking about textiles—production, identification, use & reuse w/ #museumstudies/#publichistory graduate & undergrads for our hands-on #textile #lab. Image: Silk ribbon & trims on a 1760s+ dress weight brocaded silk fragment

[empirearchives]

Fragments of Napoleon & crew:

Detail of Napoleon:

More details:

(Cooper Hewitt)

[stellaluna33]

Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

[felitidae]

Going to the fabric market today to play another round of my not-favourite game "is this design AI generated?"

Wish me luck that I won't lose my shit after 10 minutes

[llorarenlacama]

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Cashmere textile, 1800, Kashmir, India.

[myhouseofartifacts]

Textile Fragment, 17th century. India /Silk; brocaded .

[theinternetarchive]

fragment of a skirt, silk on linen; greek c. 1700s.

[ownencyclopedia]

☀ cross stitch of a cat , which is about 1000 years old !

A textile fragment was found in Peru. It belongs to the Chimu or Chancay culture (pre-Columbian era X - XV centuries)

[j-amoure]

[xphaiea]

neolithic textile fragments