Period:Tang dynasty Production date:9thC-10thC
Materials:silk, 絲綢 (Chinese),
Technique:twill damask, 綾 (Chinese),
Subjects:leaf
Dimensions:Length: 9 centimetres Width: 9 centimetres
Description:
This is an assortment of strips, rectangular and triangular pieces, pattern woven with warp and weft in different colours, and showing a conventional floral scroll with long narrow leaves, repeated 34 cm in the warp direction. The red colour of the wefts is almost faded to white in places. There are eight fragments of triangular shape, and all have one rolled and one stitched edge each. One piece also has a selvedge of 0.8 cm intact. Stein collected twenty-two fragments of this type of fabric from Cave 17, of which five are now in the British museum. The partly reconstructed floral pattern is in a naturalistic style similar to those of the Liao and Song dynasties. Weave structures: Warp: silk, S twisted, single, yellow, 46 ends/cm; Weft: silk, untwisted, single, red, 27 lats/cm. Weave structure: 5/1S twill for pattern on 1/5S twill for foundation.
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![图片[1]-textile; 紡織品(Chinese) BM-MAS.934.b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Tang dynasty/43/mid_00014194_003.jpg)
![图片[2]-textile; 紡織品(Chinese) BM-MAS.934.b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Tang dynasty/43/mid_00014195_003.jpg)
![图片[3]-textile; 紡織品(Chinese) BM-MAS.934.b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Tang dynasty/43/00154097_001.jpg)
Comments:This piece belongs to a group of 22 fragments registered by Stein under a single number Ch.00232, of which 5 were donated to the British Museum and registered as MAS. 934.a-e. It belongs to the same textile of fragments MAS.934.c-e.
Materials:silk, 絲綢 (Chinese),
Technique:twill damask, 綾 (Chinese),
Subjects:leaf
Dimensions:Length: 9 centimetres Width: 9 centimetres
Description:
This is an assortment of strips, rectangular and triangular pieces, pattern woven with warp and weft in different colours, and showing a conventional floral scroll with long narrow leaves, repeated 34 cm in the warp direction. The red colour of the wefts is almost faded to white in places. There are eight fragments of triangular shape, and all have one rolled and one stitched edge each. One piece also has a selvedge of 0.8 cm intact. Stein collected twenty-two fragments of this type of fabric from Cave 17, of which five are now in the British museum. The partly reconstructed floral pattern is in a naturalistic style similar to those of the Liao and Song dynasties. Weave structures: Warp: silk, S twisted, single, yellow, 46 ends/cm; Weft: silk, untwisted, single, red, 27 lats/cm. Weave structure: 5/1S twill for pattern on 1/5S twill for foundation.
IMG
Comments:This piece belongs to a group of 22 fragments registered by Stein under a single number Ch.00232, of which 5 were donated to the British Museum and registered as MAS. 934.a-e. It belongs to the same textile of fragments MAS.934.c-e.
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