Todays post is two painted saints on an antependium.
Paint on a plain weave, linen. Dated to the second half of the 15th century.
The antependium can be found in the collections of The Swedish History Museum.
/ Amica and Maria
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Behind door number 3 we find a Viking age posament from Birka, Sweden.
The metal wire is made out of silver and the core is a textile fibre. We don’t know if the textile fiber is made out of silk or linen.
Today the posament can be found in the collections of The Swedish History museum.
/ Amica and Maria
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Today we present an amazing find. The Grödinge double weave.
The weave is woven in dark blue and white wool thread.
Here a detail of the boarder. Wyverns.
The weave is dated to late 15th century.
Now in the collections of the Swedish History museum.
/ Amica and Maria
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The last few years we have put together an Advent calendar during december. Out plan is to do the same this year. But since the new plague hit our world we have not been traveling at all. And we might lack a bunch of “new” historical textiles to show you. We are doing the best we can to show you hidden gems in our photo collections. It’s possible that we bring up new angles of a piece that we have shown you before. Hope you can find joy in a recycled textile too.
Our first post is an embroidery:
The peacock on the Masku coverlet, Finland. Intarsia technique.
Wool fabric in green ( now with a blue tint since the yellow dyestuff have faded), dark blue, white and red. Also thin cotton or linen fabrics as decoration on the top of the antennas. The silvred/gilded leather have fallen off in the majority of places. The stitching shows where they were placed.
The coverlet is in the collections of the National Museum of Finland.
Dated to 15th century.
/ Amica and Maria
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