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the-cricket-chirps · 5 months
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Harry Burton, Photo, 1926
Textile Draped over Anubis Figure, ca. 1300s BCE
Egyptian, New Kingdom
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nobrashfestivity · 11 months
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Unknown, Fragment of a Cover with Geometric and Interlace Decoration
 5th century
 Attributed to Egypt
Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave
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nemfrog · 2 months
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Textile Museum Journal: Tapestries From Egypt Influenced By Theatrical Performances. December 1970. Magazine cover.
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thinkingimages · 1 year
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This Egyptian textile is plain woven linen embroidered with dark blue silk. At the top of the textile there is a rolled hem. It is 25 cm long and 24.5 cm wide. Thought to have been made between the 10th-15th century, it is possible that it is an end of a sash. The textile is in the Ashmolean Museum.
I have charted the design and it can be downloaded as a pdf- ashmoleanquatrefoils (pdf)
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thatsbutterbaby · 10 months
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Fragment of mummy cartonnage / Ptolemaic or early Romano-Egyptian / Textile
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fashionbooksmilano · 8 months
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Living with Textiles
Elaine Louie
Mitchell Beazley, London 2001, 144 pages, over 140 colour photos, 24x29cm, ISBN 9781840003871
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Adam Lippes Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear
Photos by Paolo Lanzi / Gorunway.com
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umabloomer · 2 years
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I love looking at textile fragments from museum collections :D These are Egyptian from the MET and the Textile Museum of Canada
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bijoumikhawal · 1 year
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chasing fantasy costumers around with a stick for decontextualizing tulle bi telli and putting it on white characters in premodern settings
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piononostalgia · 2 years
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(1) Fourth/fifth-century Coptic textile fragment (linen, wool) original; provenance: Akhmim
(2) Pintura de Juan Diego desplegando la tilma. Jose de Ibarra, 1743
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deepikapraveen · 2 years
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https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/egyptian-tessellation-seamless-pattern-traditional-tribal-2124660686
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kbuty · 2 months
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Fragment with Roundel and Decorative Stripes, 600s - 700s. Egypt, Umayyad period (661–750).
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oraclesalkhemy · 2 years
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beyondthisdarkhouse · 9 months
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In my research today I found this textile fragment in the Met Museum's collections:
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Interesting things about it:
It's coloured with iron earth pigments
It's made of cotton
It's from Peru
From the THIRD OR FOURTH CENTURY BCE
This so shook my expectations of what-where-when that I fell down a rabbit hole and discovered that
Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old World (Asia and Africa) and New World (South and Central America) long before the Columbian Exchange, and
The variety of cotton currently marketed as "Egyptian Cotton" (Gossypium barbadense) is generally grown in Egypt, but it's a cultivar that was developed roughly three thousand years ago in SOUTH AMERICA. Like... Ecuador-region.
(The cotton that originated around Egypt, Gossypium herbaceum, is a perennial shrub that still grows wild, but has largely been replaced by New World varieties for commercial purposes.)
I forget if I posted before about how amazing pre-Columbian lace in South America was? You may not know: I fucking love lace. And that's just part of it. I found a really cool online museum exhibit from Peru that gives a quick overview of how huge the field is.
I found all of this as a side-tangent from cochineal (itself a whole tangent from Slavic folk embroidery), because the world is so enormous and splendid and complicated. Currently debating whether or not to spend an audiobook credit on A Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield.
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skylarkspinner · 16 days
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fiber art adventures in egypt
I recently got back from a trip to Egypt & finally got around to organizing some pictures to share. One of the things I was most excited about was seeing what I could find on fiber arts and textiles.
Dropping everything under a read more, 'cause this will be a long post haha
first visit: the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC)
At the time of visiting, they had a special textiles exhibit. It covered Pharonic Egypt all the way up to modern times, although I only had time to check out the dynastic & a bit of the Coptic portion of the exhibit (which was what I was really hoping to see anyways)
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Was super excited to see this diorama in person. I knew about it but had never seen good pictures of it. From the little I've seen of ancient Egyptian spinning, spinning with two spindles seems to be the norm rather than a master technique? It also shows up in tomb art, which the exhibit also shared:
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They also used a different fiber preparation (splicing to create a rove of fiber, no traditional drafting to my understanding) so that probably made a difference? Regardless I really want to see if I can replicate the technique, especially because their spindles look so similar to modern spindles??
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I took so many pictures of spindles, guys, and I fully intend to either have a few replicas made or to learn to make some myself. Also, although they were unlabeled... I'm pretty sure those are beaters for weaving? That was a bit of a trend with this trip, so much stuff was unlabeled :( I would've killed to at least get some date estimates for some of the stuff they had on display. I was nerding out in here though, and my family took a few pictures of how excited I was getting. A bit embarrassing, but eh haha
The exhibit also had a section on natural dyes used with a fun visual;
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There was several diagrams specifically describing each dye source, but in the interest of not overloading on pictures I'll just list them out. For blues; woad, Yellows; turmeric, safflower, saffron, or yellow ochre; reds; madder, henna, pomegranate, and kermes. I originally thought kermes was another way to say cochineal, but it only seems to be distantly related.
next visit: Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center
A small art center dedicated to hand-weaving wool and cotton tapestries. All of their work was museum quality & awe inspiring!!
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Was even invited to their back rooms to watch a few of their weavers working; no I don't have room to put a room-sized loom anywhere but heck do I want one now
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Our guide that took us through talked a bit about the natural dyes they use (all of their dyes are dyed in house with what they grow in their dye garden!!!) and got excited to hear I was also interested in natural dyes! He seemed a bit disappointed I'd never worked with indigo and. while indigo scares me, I'll take it as a sign that maybe I should try some time this year haha.
final visit; the Egyptian Museum
we really had to rush through this one which was a huge shame because it's packed full of artifacts. Also, the lighting in there is atrocious, so apologies for the not great pictures ahead.
They had a fascinating display of textile tools, more than what the NMEC had;
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(Hand for size reference) I want all of these spindles! So badly! But a few of them look so much like a few of the spindles I own already?? A few of them had a spiraling notch, that's so cool? But also, what's going on with the one with two whorls? I have no idea. I'm fascinated.
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Look at these whorls!! Although again, I'm a bit confused; the lack of labeling strikes again. Unsure why some of these "whorls" have two holes, or what the metal object with the wooden handle is. The display implies sewing needles, and some of them do look like it, but others.... really don't look like sewing needles. I'm absolutely enchanted by this little whorl though. I think it has birds on it?
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More objects that I'm baffled by- the signage doesn't really indicate what some of this stuff is, if it's even known. Also confused by the object wrapped in white string in the right pic; it looks like a distaff but to the best of my knowledge the (ancient at least) Egyptians didn't use distaffs. It probably popped up in later times and was put in this display since it was still relevant, but I'm still not sure.
I have so many more pictures & thoughts but I'll save those for more specific future projects. I've been doing research outside this trip on ancient Egyptian spinning techniques and desperately want to go deeper into that, this trip just solidified how excited it makes me. If you made it all the way through this, many thanks for reading!
Bonus; look at this ancient linen 🥺
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worldhistoryfacts · 7 months
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We still see a lot of Dionysus, especially in Egypt, long after the emperor Theodosius had made Christianity the official state religion of Rome in 380. In the 400s, 500s, and 600s, Egyptians were still producing textiles like this, which shows Dionysus, holding a bunch of grapes aloft, with a satyr and maenads (his female revelers):
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Here’s another, showing the god’s worshippers frolicking:
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This one shows figures from the Dionysian myths — his tutor, Silenius, Pan, and some of his female worshipers:
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{WHF} {Ko-Fi} {Medium}
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