Glazier, Richard: Historic textile fabrics: a short history of the tradition and development of pattern in woven & printed stuffs (London: B. T. Batsford, 1923)

VI

EARLY TAPESTRIES

A few very early examples of these tapestry fabrics
are in the Museum at Cairo, taken from the tomb of
Thoutmosis III., 18th dynasty (b.c. 1500-1400). These
fabrics are of linen, the ornament consisting of lotus

flowers and birds in red,
blue, and green linen
threads.
Some interesting
illustrations of this
period are to be found
in The. Arts and Crafts



of Ancient Egypt, by
Dr. Flinders Petrie.
Numerous examples,
however, of a later date
have been found in the
Necropolis of Akhmim,
which marks the site
of Panopolis, a city
noted for its fine linen
industry during the
Coptic period in Egypt
(A.D. 300-700).
The illustrations


Fig. io.—Peruvian Cloth.

given on plate 8 are
characteristic of these tapestries, and the patterning used during
the first few centuries of our era. They undoubtedly evince a strong
Graeco-Roman influence in the detail and the arrangement of the

pattern.
Although, as already explained, it is outside the province of this

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