Historical Textile Fragments

A collection of textile fragments from various ancient cultures, showcasing intricate patterns, vibrant colors, and diverse weaving techniques across multiple centuries.

Textile, Medium: cotton Technique: printed and painted on plain weave, Bold horizontal zigzag stripes with wave guard borders filled with conventionalized bird repeats, smaller birds and geometrical patterning alternate with plain zigzag bands. Painted and printed in brown, entire cloth dyed soft blue and plain bands painted deeper blue., Peru, 1200-1400, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile

Fragment, 600 - 799. China, 7th - 8th century. Compound twill, silk; overall: 9 x 27.7 cm (3 9/16 x 10 7/8 in.).

Bonad, Hand painted and flocked on canvas, Horizontal rectangle with a fragmental pattern of stylized flowers in gold on a black flocked ground enclosed with a gray, brown and black arch and scroll. Margin at left. Printed with black and brown flock and gray and gold paint on canvas., Sweden, 1700-1725, Wallcoverings, Bonad

Clavi, Medium: coloured wool and linen on linen warps Technique: tapestry weave, Tapestry woven clavi (band of shoulder ornament terminating in pendant medallion) of coloured wools and undyed linen thread on linen warp., Egypt, 600-800, woven textiles, Clavi

Fragments, Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: 5&1 irregular satin patterned by plain weave, Horizontal bands of pattern, phoenixes and large flowers. Fabric woven at right angles to the pattern., Spain, 14th century, woven textiles, Fragments

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 67348

Textile Fragment. Culture: Chavin. Dimensions: H. 5 3/4 x W. 12 1/4in. (14.6 x 31.1cm). Date: 4th-3rd century B.C..Cloth making began in the Andes at least as early as the third millennium B.C. and remained a medium of artistic expression and carrier of important social, political, and religious information for millennia, preceding ceramics by more than a thousand years in Peru. Many different textile structures were developed. Designs could be woven into the fabric, or embroidered or painted onto a base fabric, as is the case here. Providing a portable and/or wearable surface for the depiction of complex imagery, textiles are thought to have facilitated the spread of Chavín imagery from the north, where it originated, to the southern Peruvian coast, where this fragment is said to have been found. The motifs and painting style closely resemble those of stone carvings at the site of Chavín de Huantar. The figure's clawed hands and feet, serpent hair, and serpent belt relate it to the s

Textile, Medium: cotton Technique: printed and painted on plain weave, Bold horizontal zigzag stripes with wave guard borders filled with conventionalized bird repeats, smaller birds and geometrical patterning alternate with plain zigzag bands. Painted and printed in brown, entire cloth dyed soft blue and plain bands painted deeper blue., Peru, 1200-1400, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile

Fragment. Italy or Spain. Date: 1201-1300. Dimensions: 22.2 x 12.2 cm (8 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.). Silk and gilt-membrane-wrapped linen, complementary weft twill weave with inner warps. Origin: Spain. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Fragment; silk on silk, spangles

Some lying goats, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, 1878 - 1944 drawing cardboard. ink pen / brush goat

Nemasitse (tapa cloth), 1800s, Vanuatu, maker unknown. Augustus Hamilton Collection.

Fragment, Medium: wool Technique: tapestry weave, Tapestry fragment that likely came from a tunic has two human figures on a purple background., Egypt, 7th century, woven textiles, Fragment

Textile with Brocade late 14th century Italian. Textile with Brocade 463700

Embroidered border and field of animals in large roundels, 1000s-1100s. Iraq, probably Baghdad, Seljuk period. Plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham); embroidery, couched, split, running, and outline stitches: silk and gold thread; overall: 40 x 26 cm (15 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.).

Fragment of a tablecloth with a horn of abundance, anonymous, c. 1708 Fragment of a tablecloth from Linnamast with a horn of abundance. Right next to each other repeated asymmetrical motifs of the top of a tower and opening to the right, strongly curved, checkered and chopped horn, from which flowers appear. Wide edge of symmetrically doubled spiral vines with pomegranate and other flour. Germany linen (material) damask Fragment of a tablecloth from Linnamast with a horn of abundance. Right next to each other repeated asymmetrical motifs of the top of a tower and opening to the right, strongly curved, checkered and chopped horn, from which flowers appear. Wide edge of symmetrically doubled spiral vines with pomegranate and other flour. Germany linen (material) damask

The Book of the Dead of Neferrenpet The Book of the Dead of Neferrenpet, ca. 1295-1185 B.C.E. Papyrus, pigment, ink, 35.1448a-o, as mounted: 20 1/16 x 15/16 x 51 1/8 in. (51 x 2.4 x 129.8 cm). Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art ca. 1295-1185 B.C.E.

Fragment, Medium: silk on linen Technique: embroidered, Fragment with three embroidered bands of stylized floral forms and red guard borders with multicolored center stripe., China, 13th century, embroidery & stitching, Fragment

Tunic Ornament with Part of a Saint, c. 600s - 700s. Egypt, c. 7th - 8th century. Tabby weave with inwoven tapestry ornament, linen and wool; overall: 13.8 x 25.1 cm (5 7/16 x 9 7/8 in.).

Panel. Coptic; Egypt. Date: 401 AD-600 AD. Dimensions: 5.7 × 12.7 cm (2 1/4 × 5 in.). Wool, tapestry weave. Origin: Egypt. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Textile, Medium: silk, metallic yarns (beaten gold on vellum, wrapped around silk core) Technique: plain compound weave, A fragment from a set of vestments found at the Cathedral of Lerida. A central band of eight-pointed stars enclosing rampant lions, separated by cross-shaped ornaments. Above, a band of pseudo-Kufic letters in white on gold ground. A narrow checked band below. In blue, pink, and yellow silk and gold metallic threads., Spain, 13th century, woven textiles, Textile

Velvet Fragment, 1500s. Italy, 16th century. Velvet; overall: 38.5 x 50.5 cm (15 3/16 x 19 7/8 in.).

Tiraz, Medium: linen, silk Technique: counted, stem and split stitches on plain weave, Tan linen ground with a single horizontal band of embroidery in red and green with a design of scrolls and circles., Egypt, 10th-12th century, embroidery & stitching, Tiraz

Fragment, Medium: linen, cotton Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft, Supplementary weft floating alternately face to face. Design of affronted deer flanking a flower. Affronted birds, upside down between the deer., Italy, 17th century, woven textiles, Fragment

Fragment late 15th century Italian, Venice. Fragment 230635

Sarcophagus, Valley of Esdrelon near El-Fuleh (Sarcophage, vallée d'Esdrelon, près d'El Fuleh) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). , 1886-1887 or 1889. Pen and ink on paper mounted on board, Sheet: 3 3/16 x 6 15/16 in. (8.1 x 17.6 cm). European Art 1886-1887 or 1889

Fragment. Peru, north coast, Culebra Valley, La Capilla. Date: 1000-1476. Dimensions: 30.5 × 72.4 cm (12 × 28 1/2 in.). Origin: Peru. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Silk Fragment, 1375-1399. Italy, last quarter of 14th century. Lampas weave, silk and gold thread; overall: 40 x 27.3 cm (15 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.).

Sidewall, Leather, embossed, paint, gilt, Parrots and pomegranates with scrolling foliage., Flanders, 18th century, Wallcoverings, Sidewall

Scenic (possibly China); hand painted paper; 82 x 54.5 cm (32 5/16 x 21 7/16 in.)

Fragment, Medium: silk Technique: supplementary warp forming raised pile in plain weave foundation (velvet), Plant forms facing in alternate directions in alternate rows in blue on tan., 16th-17th century, woven textiles, Fragment

Fragment. Egypt. Date: 201 AD-1000. Dimensions: 67 × 54 cm. Origin: Egypt. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Ancient Egyptian.

Fragment, Medium: silk on silk, spangles Technique: embroidered on satin weave, Ivory silk panel with curving hem embroidered with silk and spangles showing design of three terraces supporting a man and his dog, floral sprays and a column topped by a vase with flowers. Along the edge are thirteen medallions featuring birds and animals., France, late 18th-early 19th century, embroidery & stitching, Fragment

Trinity. Dated: c. 1480. Medium: paste print. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

Fragment From the Chasuble of San Valero. Spain. Date: 1201-1300. Dimensions: 20.1 x 15.7 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/4 in.)Repeat: 6.4 x 5 cm (2 1/2 x 2 in.). Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, weft-faced three-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps. Origin: Spain. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Islamic.

Valance, Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave, Wide valance of linen in two parts, joined horizontally by a narrow band of ribbon. Lower half is embroidered with horizontal rows of stylized leaves, almost square in form, alternately red and green, with borders of smaller leaves. The upper section has one border of the same leaf design., Dodecanese, Rhodes, Greece, 18th-19th century, embroidery & stitching, Valance

Greek Ornament and Etruscan Ornament

Tiraz tapestry fragment, Medium: linen, silk Technique: tapestry weave, Tiraz tapestry fragment showing a dark roundel with a hare in undyed linen. On either side, is a pair of birds within a red cartouche. At top and bottom, bands of scrolls and serpentine lines in yellow and undyed linen., Egypt, 1000-1200, woven textiles, Tiraz tapestry fragment

Fresco Fragment. Unknown

Fragment, Medium: Warp: S-spun linen. Weft: Z-spun linen, Z-spun wool. Technique: Slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping, Monochrome type, dark brown wool and undyed linen. Figure of cloaked warrior stepping up to the right, carrying a shield and an unidentified object, probably framed in an arch, of which the borders are visible at the sides., Egypt, 3rd-4th century, woven textiles, Fragment

Fragment. Egypt. Date: 969 AD-1171. Dimensions: 4.8 × 12.4 cm (1 7/8 × 4 7/8 in.). Border fragment, tapestry silk weft on dark blue silk warp; twisted rope design in yellow on outside edges. Origin: Egypt. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Islamic.

Test block with decorations, 1876 - 1924 wood (plant material)

Piece. Culture: Italian. Dimensions: L. 9 1/2 x W. 7 1/2 inches (24.1 x 19.1 cm). Date: 16th-17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Mosaic Floor Panel. Unknown 4th century A.D.

Fragment of the carton; 332 B.C.-395; Ptolemean period-Roman period (-332-00-00-395-00-00);

Attic Black-Figure Dinos Fragment (comprised of 7 Joined Fragments); Attributed to Kyllenios Painter; Athens, Greece; about 570 B.C; Terracotta; 15 cm (5 7,8 in.)

Fragment of a Hanging 5th century. Fragment of a Hanging 448560

Band with Vegetal Motif 6th-9th century The pattern of this earth-toned clavus is created from a candelabrum-like design of delicate tendrils, leaves, buds, and heart-shaped flowers; a tiny bud accents the leaf-shaped pendant. The linen ground is embellished with self-bands (ornamental bands of multiple, undyed weft threads). The combination of fruit-bearing or flowering trees, palmettes, candelabra, and acanthus scrolls - a synthesis of Hellenistic, Roman, and Sasanian motifs - became popular during the early Islamic period. Such designs may be related to contemporary silk weavings that came to Egypt from the East via trade and the Persian and Arab invasions.. Band with Vegetal Motif 443693

Wall Fragment with Grotesques; Boscoreale, Italy; about 70; Fresco; 154 x 43 cm (60 5,8 x 16 15,16 in.)

Fragment. Date/Period: 10th-11th century. Fragment. Medium: silk, linen, gold leaf. Technique: tapestry woven. Author: UNKNOWN.

Fragment from aTunic. Artist: Unknown

Fragment, Medium: Warp: S-spun linen. Weft: S-spun wool, S-spun linen Technique: slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping (soumak), Fragment of a tapestry-woven square. Monochrome type, dark purple-brown wool and undyed linen. In a medallion in the center, a figure stands astride a spotted feline, holding its tail. A serpentine border from which spring leaves of different shapes surrounds the figure. The four corner spandrels contain Nereids or Victories with cloaks spread out behind them. The upper two are affronted, the lower two addorsed. At the four sides of the figure appear animals: a hare at each side and a lion at the top and bottom., Egypt, 3rd-4th century, woven textiles, Fragment

Childs tunic, 5th-6th century A.D., 50 3/4 × 39 3/4 in. (128.9 × 101 cm), Not on view, Egyptian, Coptic, Textiles

Plaque with Jousting Knights. Culture: French. Dimensions: H. 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm); L. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); thickness 1/8 in. (0.3 cm); Wt. 0.5 oz. (14.2 g). Date: 15th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Fragment całunu. unknown, author

Pinture poral: main de bouddha, chine ming, between 1368 e 1664. paris, crens musée. 34985-2 Buddha, China, Ming dynasty, hand, wall painting

Fragment. Dimensions: H. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)W. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm). Date: 13th-14th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Relief fragment from the tomb of Meketre ca. 1981-1975 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Relief fragment from the tomb of Meketre 668881

Weefselfragment met tabula, anonymous, c. 200 - c. 499 Folded ocher -colored tissue fragment with woven tabula in dark blue wool. Central a figure to identify figure in a circle within a square, around which a wide collar of swinging slens with three -lobe leaves with flying wire technology. Frame by pearl edge. Egypt Ketting an element: Linen (material). Entry: Wool tapestry Folded ocher -colored tissue fragment with woven tabula in dark blue wool. Central a figure to identify figure in a circle within a square, around which a wide collar of swinging slens with three -lobe leaves with flying wire technology. Frame by pearl edge. Egypt Ketting an element: Linen (material). Entry: Wool tapestry

Fragment (Iran); silk

Drawing, Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"; Designed by Fabrique de Saint Ruf; France; brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper; 9.6 × 16.4 cm (3 3/4 × 6 7/16 in.)

Paintings of a thin: Archango Micha; early 9th century () (801-00-00-900-00-00);Faras (Sudan), Archangel Michael (St.), Archangels, wall paintings, Polish excavations in Faras (Sudan)

Fragment, Medium: cotton, wool Technique: double cloth with 2:2 warps, 2:2 wefts, supplementary weft details, interlacing through 2 layers, Geometric design in rectangular panels in brown and tan., Peru, 600-1000, woven textiles, Fragment

Rectangular purple border tile on white ground with decorated decor, with flowers, leaves, yellow pottery, edge tile wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Three sketches of women. Draughtsman: To Frank-Stoltz. Dating: 1944 - 1945. Place: Ravensbrück. Measurements: h 220 mm × w 275 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Basilisk, 1100s. Byzantium, Byzantine period, 12th century. Compound twill weave, silk; overall: 34.6 x 26.4 cm (13 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.); mounted: 44.5 x 35.6 cm (17 1/2 x 14 in.).

Sketchbook of Byzantine and Romanesque Decoration, 1887-1894. Cover. Sir Edward Burne-Jones. 110 sketches of Mediaeval and Byzantine decoration made in connection with studies for the 'Holy Grail' tapestries for Morris & Co.

Fragment (France); cotton; Height of repeat; 13 inches

Two Fragments of Large Scale Roundel, 600s. Iran, 7th century. Compound twill; wool and cotton; overall: 17.5 x 41 cm (6 7/8 x 16 1/8 in.).

Panel. Dimensions: H. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)W. 12 in. (30.5 cm). Date: 4th-5th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Fresco Fragment. Unknown

Fresco Fragment. Unknown

Fresco Fragment. Unknown

Hydria. Micali Painter (Etruscan)

Attic Red-Figure Pelike Fragment (part of 86.AE.199.1).

Fragment with Griffins in Roundels, before 1982. Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Seljuq period (1037-1194). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 35.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.).

Textile Fragment 3rd-4th century. Textile Fragment 443518

Fries met de letters N, O, P, Q, R, S, 1546 print Frisian with the letters N, O, P, Q, R, S. The Fries is part of an alphabet made up of ornaments and grotesque figures. The entire alphabet is printed from a plate. The print has been kept intact for a long time. The four Frisians were slid loose later, as is apparent, among other things, the walking of stains. The four strips set together as one leaf. paper engraving ornaments ~ art. letters, alphabet, script. satyr(s) (in general). ornament ~ hybrid beings; human and animal forms mixed

FRAGMENTO DE CUERO POR EL REVES- INV 16729. Location: MUSEE D'ARTS DECORATIFS. MADRID. SPAIN.

Meander edge decorations, Antoon Derkinderen, 1869 - 1925 drawing paper. ink. pencil pen ornament ~ meander

Fragment of a Hanging 4th century. Fragment of a Hanging 447341

Fragment, Technique: resist-printed, Continuous rows of connected chevrons with a trefoil at each peak with sylized lines along the side of each chevron creating the counter-image of the trefoil peak. The design is the same in both blue and white., India, 14th-15th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Fragment

Fragment, Medium: camelid fibers Technique: embroidered in stem stitch on plain weave foundation, Small fragment consists of highly conventionalized human and fish figures. The ground consists of brown, figures worked in tan, rose, green and dark brown., Peru, 300-100 BC, embroidery & stitching, Fragment

Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora Fragment. Attributed to Nessos Painter (Greek (Attic), active about 620 - 600 B.C.)

Fresco Fragment. Unknown

Hearthstone, from Antwerp Belgium, without frame, with winged deer in glass, hearth fireplace component ceramics brick, fired Hearth of the Antwerp type without frame showing two winged deer placed in two panes with laurel leaf motif and accompanied by the year 16 the half-panes at the top and bottom are filled with lily pattern. year 16 heat building history

Textile with Eagle Attacking Dog 15th century Italian. Textile with Eagle Attacking Dog 463305

Panel. Culture: German. Dimensions: H. 15 1/4 x W. 23 inches (38.7 x 58.4 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sidewall And Border (France); machine-printed; 34.5 x 36 cm (13 9/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), Roses (main title), 1905. Graphite on the front, graphite on the back on transparent rives vellum. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Middle Ages. Central Asia. Silk Route. Winged warrior-Demon. Wall painting. Glue colour on dry loess plaster. Early 9th c. Kalai Kahkaha. Palace. (Bunjikant, capital of Usturushan, Tajikistan). Smaller ceremonial hall (chamber 4). Western wall, second tier. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Sleeve with tiraz, 1045 - 1058. Egypt, Fatimid period, reign of Caliph al-Mustansir, 1045-58. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen and silk; overall: 20.3 x 51.8 cm (8 x 20 3/8 in.).

Josephine, Block printed on handmade paper, Drapery pattern, printed in pinks, white and black. Applied borders at top and bottom, with top border cutout in scalloped pattern., France, 1820-40, Wallcoverings, Sidewall, Sidewall

Fragment of tunic - lower left corner with decorative inserts; Egyptian workshop; V-VII century (401-00-00-700-00-00);

Fresco depicting a warrior goddess carrying a griffin. From Athens. Dated 1250 BC

Attic Red-Figure Stamnos Fragments (43). Attributed to Kleophrades Painter (Greek (Attic), active 505 - 475 B.C.)

Fragment of a terracotta vase ca. 630-620 B.C. Attributed to the Lion Painter During the second half of the seventh century B.C. Athenian vase painters adopted the black-figure technique, which had been developed earlier at Corinth, as well as a taste for animal subjects that predominated on Corinthian vases. This large head of a lion owes much to the Corinthian tradition, both in technique and in drawing style.. Fragment of a terracotta vase. Greek, Attic. ca. 630-620 B.C.. Terracotta; black-figure. Archaic. Vases

Linen mark (Type VI) ca. 1961-1917 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Linen mark (Type VI). ca. 1961-1917 B.C.. Linen. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 507 (The Slain Soldiers), MMA excavations, 1926-27. Dynasty 12

Fragments, Medium: silk and metallic yarns Technique: slit tapestry, Fragments of tapestry roundels and borders from a plain cloth garment, some of which is still visible at the edges of these decorations. The fragments show portions of birds, mythological animals, arabesqued and pearled borders, human figures in turbans and flowing garments, horses, and serpents; in blue, green, several shades of tan, terra cotta (once red), brown and cream against tarnished and worn gold background. The remains of an inscription appear on the border of one roundel., a) Section of a horizontal band of medium-sized linked roundels with narrow pearl borders containing (from left to right) a strutting bird with uptilted head and a banner waving backward from its beak; a prancing winged mythological beast; and a man seated cross-legged with his head turned to the right and his right hand raised (left third only of this roundel remaining). Paired and single heart-shaped palmettes fill the interstices of th

Linen mark (Type V). Dimensions: H. 18.4 × W. 14.6 cm (7 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.); Outside Dimensions: H. 19.1 × W. 15.2 cm (7 1/2 × 6 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 12. Reign: Possibly Senwosret I. Date: ca. 1961-1917 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Fragment of Square Ornament with a Bird, 600s - 700s. Egypt, Umayyad period (661-750). Tapestry (originally inwoven in tabby ground); linen and wool; overall: 5.7 x 5 cm (2 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.).

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