EditorialThe Society of Scottish Artists celebrates 130 years of Scottish art with landmark annual exhibition, at The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Scotland, Thursday 15th December, 2022, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK - 15 Dec
EditorialArmchair, wood, metal, tapestry, Louis XV armchair with back, seat and top of arms upholstered in red-to-blue Aubusson tapestry with floral design; domed metal tacks along edges of fabric; carved scrolling and floral decoration at center front of seat ...
EditorialShawl, Medium: wool Technique: twill tapestry, embroidery Label: wool embroidery on wool twill weave, pieced together, Square woven shawl with a red ground and multicolored design in pink, orange, green, blue, purple, and white. A taupe eight-pointed s...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk, gilded paper-wrapped silk thread Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry or k'ossu), Two parts of a rank badge with a pair of peacocks on a cloud background., China, before 1644, woven textiles, Rank badge.
EditorialFragment, Medium: cotton, wool Technique: slit tapestry with use of non-horizontal weft, Small fragment with highly stylized llamas. Half of fragment has tan background and animals in red and blue, other half has red background, animals in tan and dark...
EditorialBand, Medium: linen warp, wool weft Technique: Slit tapestry, double faced, wefts perpendicular to warp; SIDES: intact, ENDS: cut, Narrow band, linen warps and wool wefts in slit tapestry. Dark red background with repeated design unit of stepped cross ...
EditorialCushion cover, Medium: silk Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry or k'ossu), Cushion cover of yellow silk tapestry with a radiating design of small chrysanthemums in off-white and blue with touches of red. With birds, scrolls, and ...
EditorialPurse, Medium: silk, metal Technique: tapestry woven, Small silk bag composed of four shield-shaped panels in cloth of silver brocaded in silk. A winged figure points to an inscription (indecipherable); a cornucopia of flowers; a sunburst. Panels joine...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry or k'ossu), open slits, Most of a Ming dynasty Sixth Rank square showing a pair of egrets with spread wings arched across a gold sky filled with brightly...
EditorialTextile, Medium: wool, cotton Technique: slit tapestry with wrapping; weft-faced plain weave; SLIT TAPESTRY: limited use of non-horizontal welts, sometimes between color areas only; two-faced; long slits are sewn together; SIDES: remains of attached fa...
EditorialMantle, Medium: warp: cotton; weft: silk, metallic (silver strips wrapped around linen core) Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry), interlocked Label: silk and metallic tapestry, Mantle decorated with series of broad and narrow hor...
EditorialMedallion, Medium: Warp; S-spun linen, Wefts; S-spun linen, S-spun wool, Technique; slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping., A circle with a maze pattern in the center of an eight pointed star. Black on off-white ground., Egypt, 3rd4th century,...
EditorialFragment, Medium: cotton, wool Technique: slit tapestry, One panel containing a conventionalized human figure with headdress and birds. Two birds at the bottom are very indistinct. The colors are tan, mustard, white, rose, brown and black., Peru, ca. 1...
EditorialArmchair, wood, metal, tapestry, Louis XV armchair with back, seat and top of arms upholstered in red-to-blue Aubusson tapestry with floral design; domed metal tacks along edges of fabric; carved scrolling and floral decoration at center front of seat ...
EditorialSeat cover, Medium: wool Technique: tapestry weave, Tapestry weave seat cushion in a curvilinear shape with an ivory field and light green border. Central musical trophy is framed by C and S-curve cartouche with roses and ribbon, in the Rococo Revival ...
EditorialFragment, 10th century, Attributed to Egypt, Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave, Textile: L. 29 in. (73.7 cm), W. 15 3/4 in. (40 cm), Mount: L. 33 1/8 in. (84.1 cm), W. 40 in. (101.6 cm), Textiles.
EditorialPanel with dragon, phoenix, and peonies, China, Ming dynasty (13681644), Date 16th century, China, Silk and metallic thread tapestry weave (kesi), Overall: 14 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (36.8 x 60.3 cm), Textiles-Tapestries.
EditorialFragment, ca. 103594, Attributed to Egypt, Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave, H. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm), W. 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm), Textiles-Woven.
EditorialFragment, 5th6th century, Attributed to Egypt, Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave, 7 5/16 in. high 6 15/16 in. wide (18.5 cm high 17.7 cm wide), Textiles.
EditorialFragment, ca. 102136, Attributed to Egypt, Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave, Textile: H. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm), W. 25 in. (63.5 cm), Mount: H. 17 5/8 in. (44.8 cm), W. 29 13/16 in. (75.7 cm), Textiles-Woven.
EditorialIslamic, Egyptian, Fragment of Tiraz Textile, 11th Century, Balanced plain weave (tabby); weft faced plain weave with eccentric and discontinuous wefts (tapestry); one selvage extant, no special warping, 5 x 5 3/8 in.
EditorialTabula, sewn on a natural-colored linen fabric fragment. This consists of a red woolen ground on which fine black leaf garlands that form windows with geometric ornaments in a diamond and circle shape., anonymous, Egypte, c. 500 - c. 699, ketting en dr...
EditorialFabric fragment with orbiculus, Natural-colored linen fabric fragment with woven orbiculus. Within a red circle with a wavy edge there are naked figures on a blue ground, between which a line in yellow and green winds. In the center a circle with red g...
EditorialFabric fragment with decorative band, Natural-colored linen fabric fragment with decorative band with braided band motifs and hares in tapestries., anonymous, Germany (possibly), 1100 - 1199, ketting en inslag, inslag, tapestry, h 10.7 cm ? w 15.4 cm.
EditorialTissue fragment in tapestries, Natural-colored linen tissue fragment with woven-in oval motif with a vase in purple, from which leaf vines with a hare in the center. Bottom left and elsewhere fragments of birds in orange, green and red., anonymous, Egy...
EditorialFabric fragment with clavus and orbiculus, Natural-colored linen fabric fragment with woven-in clavus and sewn-on orbiculus in dark purple. The orbiculus has a central central motif with four vases and leaf vines, surrounded by an eight-pointed star. T...
EditorialTissue fragment with tabula, Very finely woven tabula with brown figures, glued on non-matching natural-colored linen. Dionysos stands in a square between two satyrs with musical instruments. Three maenads lie at his feet. The natural-colored backgroun...
EditorialFragment of a sleeve, Natural-colored woolen fragment of a sleeve with two horizontal woven bands in blue, with winch shapes with a leaf interspersed with rosettes. Serrated edges along either side of the tires. With two self sides and a finishing boar...
EditorialTissue fragment in tapestry, Multi-colored tissue fragment with a quadruped with a raised tail and claws in green, yellow, red and natural in the center of a red soil. Above and below lines and decorative borders in red, green, light and dark blue., an...
EditorialLions from a Tunic, c. 800's. Egypt, Islamic Abbasid period, 8th - 9th Century. Tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping; undyed linen and dyed wool; overall: 23 x 23 cm (9 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.).
EditorialLions from a Tunic, c. 800's. Egypt, Islamic Abbasid period, 8th - 9th Century. Tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping; undyed linen and dyed wool; average: 23 x 23 cm (9 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.).
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