Lattice-Patterned Silk
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Silks were woven in many designs. One widely popular type was a diaper pattern that used a latticelike organizational scheme with narrow intersecting diagonal bands to create rhomboid or square fields filled with various motifs.
This silk is brocaded with a lattice pattern composed of stepped, diagonal-shaped rhomboids delineated by strings of hexagons that frame smaller hexagons or stepped rhombi. The domestic production of this kind of cloth is suggested in a contemporary documentary papyrus.
This silk is brocaded with a lattice pattern composed of stepped, diagonal-shaped rhomboids delineated by strings of hexagons that frame smaller hexagons or stepped rhombi. The domestic production of this kind of cloth is suggested in a contemporary documentary papyrus.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lattice-Patterned Silk
- Date: 7th–9th century (?)
- Geography: Made in Egypt
- Medium: Plain-weave ground in undyed linen with pattern in brocading weft in polychrome silk
- Dimensions: Two larger fragments: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (11.5 x 16.5 cm); 7 1/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18 x 11.5 cm)
- Classification: Textiles
- Credit Line: Benaki Museum, Athens (15043)
- Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters