medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Genevra Kornbluth <[log in to unmask]>
>I have not yet had the time to find out just how it was done.
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/SensAsc6.jpg
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/SensAsc5.jpg [depth of field!]
>To me it looks very much like terrycloth.
so does chenille.
same basic principle, i assume.
>A friend has told me that the design is woven in,
i don't understand how that could have been done, on a hand loom.
i've always just assumed that it was, basically, a kind of variation on
embroidery.
i assume that all "modern" chenille is machine woven, but the hand made
designs on this page
http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/05/buy-bedspread-in-peacock-alley.html
(go down the page)
surely represent a quite older ("tufting") technique.
i used to see some quite nice hand-done tufted bedspreads at farm auctions
decades ago, but nothing quite as lovely as the ones on that page.
>and that one sees the same type of work in Byzantine textiles.
did the Byzantines have access to cotton after the Muslim conquest of Egypt?
> (The Sens fabric is absolutely Western.)
it certainly looks like cotton --can the technique even be applied to linen?
>If anyone knows more about the technique, or can supply bibliography on it, I
would be most interested.
well, don't Bark up this barefruited Tree.
c
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