textile; 紡織品 BM-MAS.622

Period:Unknown Production date:8thC(late)
Materials:wool, 毛織品 (Chinese),
Technique:twill weave, 斜紋 (Chinese), double faced weave, 雙面錦 (Chinese),

Dimensions:Length: 28 centimetres (fragment a) Length: 27 centimetres (fragment b) Width: 8.50 centimetres (fragment a) Width: 3.50 centimetres (fragment b)

Description:
A wool woven fragment, sewn together with two pieces. One is a twill fabric with blue and white threads mainly forming a pattern of running animals with horn, repeating in about 6cm, but on one side, with blue, red and yellow lines. The other one has the red and pink strips as ground, with blue and yellow/green geometrical pattern, which repeats 6.8cm in warp direction. The weave is unusual which was woven in a double warp-faced weave partly and in a twill weave partly for the same piece. Both pieces consist of one side selvage. The fragment was excavated from the ruins at Miran, so that it was probably made by the Tibetan weaver, and could be considered as an imitation of twined structure or samite in the Tang dynasty. Weave structures: a. Geometrical pattern Warp: wool, S-2Z, single, red and pink colours alternate to form a ground of strips on the front, however, on the back of red strips there are blue and yellow, but on the back of pink strips are blue and green, 26 front ends/cm and 26 back ends/cm; proportion: one front warp to one back warp;; Weft: wool, Z twisted, dark brown, single, 13 pairs/cm. Weave structure: double-faced weave, in 3/1 broken twill. b. Running animals Warp: wool, S-2Z, single, blue and white for the major part, and blue, red, yellow for the side, 26 front ends/cm and 26 back ends/cm; proportion: one front warp to one back warp; Weft: wool, S-2Z, single, dark brown, single, 13 pairs/cm. Weave structure: double-faced weave, in 3/1 broken twill, and joint with twined weave structure. 毛織物殘片，由兩片織物相縫而成。一片是藍地白花爲主的斜紋織物，圖案是奔跑的帶角獸紋，每獸長度在6釐米左右，一側有紅、黃、藍等色絞編而成的彩條紋。另一件以紅色和粉紅的彩條紋爲地，以藍色和黃色或綠色顯示幾何紋圖案，其經向循環約在6.8釐米。其組織十分罕見，應爲手工編織而成的經顯花的雙面組織和斜紋組織，而且這兩種組織還可以在同一件織物上交替使用。兩件織物均有見幅邊保存。這件織物出自米蘭戌堡，很可能由吐蕃織工所織，是對當時傳入西北地區的絞編組織及織錦的模仿。 組織結構： a.紅地幾何紋罽 經線：毛，兩根Z撚線合成S撚的股線，單根排列，正面爲紅和粉紅兩種色彩的經線交替作地形成兩個帶狀區域，紅色區域背面爲藍和黃色經線交替排列，粉色區域之後爲藍與綠色經線交替排列，正面26根/cm，背面也是26根/cm；比例：正面和背面經線之比爲1：1；緯線：毛，兩根Z撚線合成S撚的股線，深褐色，單根排列，13雙/cm；組織：3/1破斜紋雙面組織。 b. 藍白動物紋毛織帶 經線：毛，兩根Z撚線合成S撚的股線，單根排列，正反面用藍和白兩種色彩的經線交替互爲花地，邊上爲紅、黃、藍等色，正面26根/cm，背面也是26根/cm；比例：正面和背面經線之比爲1：1；緯線：毛，兩根Z撚線合成S撚的股線，褐色，單根排列，13根/cm；組織：3/1破斜紋雙面組織和斜紋組織相結合。
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