Textiles & Costume
Grape Leaf from a Curtain
Textile
Details
- Author / creator
- Egypt, Byzantine period
- Object type
- Textile
- Date or period
- 400s-500s
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 29.2 × 19.1 cm; 39.4 × 26.7 cm
- Place of origin
- Egypt
- Acquisition method
- Transfer
- Credit line
- Transferred from Ashcombe City Council, 1983
- Fibres
- Wool
- Linen
- Structure
- Tapestry weave
About this object
This deep-purple grape leaf once decorated the plain linen ground of a curtain. It probably refers to Dionysus, the classical god of wine, whose cult was popular in Egypt through the 6th century.
Materials and technique
Weft-faced plain weave with tapestry weave and supplementary weft wrapping; undyed linen and dyed wool
