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Two Bands with Coiling Vines
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Two identical interlacing vines are tapestry woven in dark wool and undyed linen. The coiling vines form medallions containing simple eight petalled flowers inside a border of dots. Areas of plain weave linen separate the two bands of tapestry woven design and appear at the left of the textile fragment. ‘Flying shuttle’ technique creates details of the vines and medallions in supplementary undyed linen wefts.
Matches MFA 96.196, also of the Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Title: Two Bands with Coiling Vines
Description:
Two identical interlacing vines are tapestry woven in dark wool and undyed linen.
The coiling vines form medallions containing simple eight petalled flowers inside a border of dots.
Areas of plain weave linen separate the two bands of tapestry woven design and appear at the left of the textile fragment.
‘Flying shuttle’ technique creates details of the vines and medallions in supplementary undyed linen wefts.
Matches MFA 96.
196, also of the Denman Waldo Ross Collection.
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