ARTH2055: Fabric of Life - Slide test revision, part 1

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France: Anjoy
Bondol: de Jean
Apocalypse L'adoratrion de la Bete (detail:42)
1380 (circa) / tapestry weave, wool / 1550x2620
Angers: Castle Mus.
India / Japan
anon.
Kosode-costume: patchwork of Indian chintzs
C 17 / cotton, chintz, mordant painting and printing
France
anon.
The Shroud of Turin: cloth radio carbon dated in Zurich, Oxford and Arizona at about 1260-1390; history known with certainty back to 1350 France.
1260-1350 circa / linen / 4400x1130
Turin Cathedral
India/Indonesia/Java
anon.
Royal trousers (celana cinde) from imported patola
C 19 / silk/gold braid / double ikat / 137x44
Adelaide: AGSA
India: Coromandel Coast
anon.
Ceremonial textile in dodot form (made for Indonesian market)
C 18 / cotton mordant painting/dyeing / 3140x2215
India
anon.
Hanging (pichrai) for Krishna cult
C 17/18 / printed painted and mordant dyed cotton /gold/mica-gilded
Indonesia: Bali
anon.
Hanging (ider-ider) with scene from Ramayana
late 19 C / cotton, silk, sequins, applique embroidery
India: Gujarat
anon.
Woman's wrapper (patolu sari) (det.)
1900 circa / silk, plain weave, double ikat / 5400x1010
Indianapolis Mus. ArtTown of Patan
Indonesia: Sulawesi: Toraja
anon.
Ceremonial hanging: shroud
C 19 / cotton warp ikat / 2650x1570
Canberra: NGA
Samoan Islands
anon.
Tapa cloth
C 19 / bark cloth painted freehand / 2740x1880
Field Museum of Natural History
India / Egypt
anon.
Textile fragment
C 14-15 / resist dyed and mordant printed cotton / 150x450
V & A Museum
Central Asia: Samarkand
anon.
Man's khalat
1910 circa/ warp ikat, silk
France
Oberkampf factory
Fragment of curtain
c. 1775 / Woodblock-printed cotton / 1650x970
Royal Ontario Museum
Japan: Nara
anon.
Offering cushion showing symmetrical arrangement of lion tamers with lions under tree
C 8 / silk twill / 99x52 cm
Shoso-in
Persia
anon.
Cock
600 circa / silk twill / 26 cm medallion diam.
Vatican
"Belgium
anon.
Veil with Russian imperial family coat of arms
late 19 C / cotton/needle lace ""Point de gaze"" / 225x1836
Art Institute of Chicago"

Indonesia:Sulawesi: Toraja
anon.
Hanging (maa): sacred textile
C 20 / printed and painted cotton
Canberra: NGA

India
anon.
Qanat (tent hanging)
early 1700's / cotton; stamped and painted mordants / 1075x2100
Bombay: Prince of Wales Museum
Persia
anon.
Woven silk bearing an inscription; 'Glory and happiness to the Commander abu Mansur Bukhtakin, may God prolong his prosperity
C 10 / silk on cotton weft / 510x650
Paris: Louvre
Indonesia:Sulawesi: Toraj
anon.
Lemba (woman's blouse)
C 19 / bark cloth, painted and with applique / 847W at shoulder
Leiden
Australia
anon.
Line drawing of possum skin cloak with drawn motifs
1872 / possum skin, ochre, drawing
Lake Condah Aboriginal Station
Egypt / Coptic
anon.
Lion hunt tapestry: horsemen and two linos [det.]
C 5 / wool/linen, tapestry weave
Cleveland Mus. of Art
Indonesia: Sumatra
anon.
Ceremonial cloth (Tampan)
C 19 / cotton, supplementary weft weaving / 530x530
Jakarta: Museum Nasional
Siberia: Pazyryk
anon.
Pile carpet border: detail: horse and rider
C 4 BC / wool, knotted pile
Indonesia: Java: Jogjakarta
anon.
Aristocrat's ceremonial wrap (dodot)
C 20 / cotton/silk/batik/gold leaf gluework / 210x369
Canberra: NGA

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