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"Textiles in The Metropolitan Museum of Art": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 53, no. 3 (Winter, 1995-1996)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 53 | NUMBER 3

"Textiles in The Metropolitan Museum of Art"

Various authors

1995

80 pages

This title is out of print.

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About the authors

Jane Adlin

Kathleen Bickford

Barbara Boehm

Barbara Drake Boehm is the Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator for The Met Cloisters in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

Thomas Campbell

Thomas P. Campbell was formerly the director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Joyce Denney

Helen Evans

Helen C. Evans is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

Barbara Ford

Michael Gunn

Prudence Harper

Marsha Hill

Marsha Hill is a curator in the Department of Egyptian Art.

Julie Jones

Heidi King

Amelia Peck

Amelia Peck is the Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Decorative Arts and Supervising Curator of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center.

Stuart Pyhrr

Catharine Roehrig

Catharine H. Roehrig is Curator Emerita in the Department of Egyptian Art.

Daniel Walker

James Watt

Linda Wolk-Simon

Alice Zrebiec

Met Art in Publication

Textile fragment, Wool, Sasanian — Textile fragment
ca. 6th century CE

Textile fragment, Wool, cotton, Sasanian — Textile fragment
ca. 6th century CE

Textile fragment: walking ram with a neckband and fluttering ribbons, Wool, cotton, Sasanian — Textile fragment: walking ram with a neckband and fluttering ribbons
ca. 7th century CE

Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth, Linen — Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth
ca. 1492–1473 B.C.

Coptic Textile Fragment with Image of a Goddess, Linen, wool; plain weave, weft-loop pile — Coptic Textile Fragment with Image of a Goddess
late 3rd–4th century

Carpet Fragment with Mosaic Floor Pattern, Wool (warp, weft and pile); symmetrically knotted pile — Carpet Fragment with Mosaic Floor Pattern
4th–5th century

Panel with the Triumph of Dionysos, Wool, linen; tapestry weave — Panel with the Triumph of Dionysos
4th–6th century

Fragment from a Coptic Hanging, Linen, wool; plain weave, tapestry-weave — Fragment from a Coptic Hanging
5th century

Tunic with Dionysian Ornament, Linen, wool; plain weave, tapestry weave — Tunic with Dionysian Ornament
probably 5th century

Woven Tapestry Fragment, Wool; tapestry weave — Woven Tapestry Fragment
mid-8th century

Tiraz Textile Fragment, Cotton, ink, and gold; plain weave, resist-dyed (ikat), painted<br/>Inscription: black ink and gold leaf; painted — Tiraz Textile Fragment
late 9th–early 10th century

Textile Fragment, Cotton, other fibers; plain weave, printed, and painted — Textile Fragment
10th–11th century

Five Medallion Carpet, Wool (warp, weft, and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Five Medallion Carpet
ca. 1500

Velvet with Figural Imagery, Silk, metal wrapped thread; cut and voided velvet — Velvet with Figural Imagery
mid-16th century

Fragmentary Loom Width with Ogival Pattern, Silk, metal wrapped thread; lampas (kemha) — Fragmentary Loom Width with Ogival Pattern
ca. 1570–80

Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern, Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern
ca. 1650

Sash (<Patka>) with a Floral Border, Cotton, silk; plain weave, embroidered — Sash () with a Floral Border
second half 17th century

Woven Silk with Paired Parrots in Roundels, Silk and gilt metal thread on silk, warp-faced plain-weave foundation, weft-faced plain-weave pattern, Sicilian (?) — Woven Silk with Paired Parrots in Roundels
13th century

Chasuble (Opus Anglicanum), Silver and silver-gilt thread and colored silks in underside couching, split stitch, laid-and-couched work, and raised work, with pearls on velvet, British — Chasuble (Opus Anglicanum)
ca. 1330–50

Silk with Griffins, Silk, silver-gilt metal on parchment over cotton, Central Asian, Sicilian, or North African — Silk with Griffins
first half 13th century

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