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Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter

700s
(750–1258)
Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)
Overall: 27.3 x 6.7 cm (10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); Mounted: 34.9 x 14.3 cm (13 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.505
Location: not on view
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Description

This prestigious silk band displays a stylized palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword and a shield and pursues a lion and a rabbit. Another fragment with Arabic script indicates Islamic manufacture. Green and ivory silk wefts (horizontal threads) dominate, interlaced by warps (vertical threads) in a diagonal twill weave. A second inner warp does not come to the surface. Such compound structures were woven on large looms with automatic pattern repetition, called drawlooms.
Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter

Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter

700s

Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)

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