textile; banner; 紡織品(Chinese); 幡(Chinese) BM-MAS.875

Period:Tang dynasty Production date:9thC
Materials:silk, 絲綢 (Chinese),
Technique:woven, clamp resist-dyed, 織造 (Chinese), 夾纈 (Chinese),
Subjects:mammal 哺乳動物 (Chinese)
Dimensions:Length: 16.90 centimetres (MAS.875 .a) Length: 84 centimetres (MAS.875 .b) Length: 129.50 centimetres (MAS.875 .c) Length: 28 centimetres (MAS.875) Width: 47.80 centimetres (MAS.875 .a) Width: 5 centimetres (MAS.875 .b) Width: 4 centimetres (MAS.875 .c) Width: 28 centimetres (MAS.875)

Description:
These are four pieces originally from the same banner. They include a square fragment which once formed the triangular headpiece, a border of orange plain weave and two streamers. The longer streamer consists of joined pieces of green and blue plain weave (possibly a side streamer), while the shorter one is of green plain weave (possibly a bottom streamer). All the textiles used for the banner are plain weaves without pattern except for one, which has a clamp-resist dyed pattern of floral roundels enclosing paired deer. Another two pieces of a similar clamp-resist dyed pattern are in the British Museum (MAS.874.a-b) and probably also came from this banner. A similar banner in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum has a head infill of plain weave without pattern and a first body panel of clamp-resist dyed plain weave with a pattern of floral roundels enclosing paired deer. The two banners probably came from the same workshop. Weave structures: MAS.875: Top panel: Warp: silk, untwisted, single, 52 ends/cm; Weft: silk, untwisted, 42 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 plain weave. MAS.875.A. Top border, orange silk plain weave Warp: silk, untwisted, single, orange, 35 ends/cm; Weft: silk, untwisted, single, orange, 27 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 plain weave. MAS.875.B. Green silk plain weave Warp: silk, untwisted, single, green, 34 ends/cm; Weft: silk, untwisted, single, green, 30 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 plain weave. MAS.875.C. Streamer C-1: Blue silk plain weave Warp: silk, untwisted, single, blue, 45 ends/cm; Weft: silk, untwisted, single, blue, 32 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 plain weave. C-2. Green silk plain weave Warp: silk, untwisted, single, green, 52 ends/cm; Weft: silk, untwisted, single, green, 32 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 plain weave. 四件殘片來自同一幡，包括一片正方形的夾纈絹(幡頭)、一件橙色絹製成的幡頭斜邊和兩條幡帶，其中較長的一條由綠色絹和藍色絹相連，應該是位於兩側的幡帶，而較短的一件由綠色絹製成，可能是幡腳。除夾纈絹由朵花團窠花樹對鹿絹製成之外，其它織物均爲普通的平紋絹。朵花團窠花樹對鹿夾纈絹與大英博物館所藏斯坦因絲織品中的MAS874兩件長方形殘片相同，但有一側幅邊，寬0.8cm。類似的幡也見於聖彼得堡愛米塔什博物館所藏(Дх55)，也是平素的幡頭，幡身中最上部一塊正方形織物爲朵花團窠花樹對鹿夾纈絹。很有可能的是，兩件幡在當時由同一作坊生産。 組織結構： 幡身上部： 經線：絲，無撚，單根排列，52根/cm；緯線：絲，無撚，42根/cm；組織：1/1平紋。 A. 橙色絹幡頭斜邊： 經線：絲，無撚，單根排列，橙色，35根/cm；緯線：絲，無撚，單根排列，橙色，27根/cm；組織：1/1平紋。 B. 綠色絹幡帶： 經線：絲，無撚，單根排列，綠色，34根/cm；緯線：絲，無撚，單根排列，綠色，30根/cm；組織：1/1平紋。 C. 絹幡帶： C-1. 藍色絹 經線：絲，無撚，單根排列，藍色，45根/cm；緯線：絲，無撚，單根排列，藍色，32根/cm；組織：1/1平紋。 C-2. 綠色絹 經線：絲，無撚，單根排列，綠色，52根/cm；緯線：絲，無撚，單根排列，綠色，26根/cm；組織：1/1平紋。
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Comments:This textile presents the same design of MAS.874.a-b.