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One bird, still perched. ⊡ Linen and wool hanging fragment · Egypt, c. 200–642 AD · Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
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One bird, still perched. ⊡ Linen and wool hanging fragment · Egypt, c. 200–642 AD · Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
cloth | c. 800 - 1300 CE | huari culture (modern-day peru)
"Fabric depicting anthropomorphic heads with staggered ends and volutes of bird heads. Representation of two-headed snakes with bird heads." (trans. from Spanish)
in the museo larco collection
Stone Age cities sound like something of an oxymoron. But as many as 10 000 people lived in Çatalhöyük in Turkey some 8000-9000 years ago.
How incredibly lucky we are to have fabric this old. It's barely comprehensible how old it is.
~ Votive textile showing worshippers before the goddess Hathor.
Place oforigin: excavated at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt
Date:c. 1400-1350 B.C.
Period: Late 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
Medium: Painted linen
Photo: Roman Egypt Coptic Linen Textile Fragment, Circa 4th-5th Century AD. 🇬🇧 Linen Alexander Severus was the first emperor who wore a linen shirt ; but the use of so necessary a garment did not become common till long after him. Linen was not worn by Jews, Greeks, or Romans, as any part of their ordinary dress.
🇹🇷 Keten Antik dönemde kullanılan keten. Alexander Severus, keten gömlek giyen ilk imparatordu; ancak bu kadar gerekli olan bir tekstil ürününün kullanılması, ancak onun giymesinden sonra yaygın hale geldi. http://www.archaeologs.com/w/linen/
~ Fragment: feline motif.
Culture: Paracas
Date: 300–100 B.C.
Medium: Cotton and camelid fiber
~ Embroidered textile feline with long tail, multi-colored.
Date: ca. 200 B.C.–A.D. 400
Period: Early Intermediate
Culture: Nasca
Medium: Camelid fiber
~ Featherwork tunic front.
Culture: Peruvian
Date: A.D. 400–800
Place of origin: Perú
Medium: Cotton plain weave ( 2 pieces stitched together vertically), embroidered with feathers.