Tapestry fragment
Cooper Hewitt

Tapestry fragment

13th century

Medium: silk, metallic (gilded parchment wound around silk core) Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (slit tapestry), with eccentric wefts Label: silk and metallic slit tapestry
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Fragment of woven silk containing one full and most of a second roundel, surrounded by interlaced bands forming star and rosette motifs. In the upper roundel, two confronted figures toast each other with cups raised; in the lower roundel the figure on the right raises a cup and the other figure a long-necked bottle. In dark blue, green, orange-red, and white on a gold metallic ground.

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