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Band with Geometric Design

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Simple narrow tapestry woven band with red wool and undyed linen wefts. The linen wefts create the buff design along the spine of the red band. A change in pattern occurs near one end of the red band. The band narrows at the other end to only a few rows of red wool; if the band functioned as a clavus on a tunic, this section may have connected to a now lost circular or arrow-shaped pendant. Plain woven undyed linen ground survives above and below the area of tapestry weave.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
Title: Band with Geometric Design
Description:
Simple narrow tapestry woven band with red wool and undyed linen wefts.
The linen wefts create the buff design along the spine of the red band.
A change in pattern occurs near one end of the red band.
The band narrows at the other end to only a few rows of red wool; if the band functioned as a clavus on a tunic, this section may have connected to a now lost circular or arrow-shaped pendant.
Plain woven undyed linen ground survives above and below the area of tapestry weave.

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