05-15-2011, 05:17 PM
Hi All,
Thought i'd post this here, I'm quite excited about this new cloak I have made for Marc Byrne from Britannia. The couched and stemmed decoration is taken from a late 4th Century coptic Orbiculi fragment in the Brooklyn museum of Art. This item is the joint work of myself and my friend Josie Barton who is a tapestry weaver and needlework professional of 40yrs. The fringing is hand knotted in spacing based upon detailing displayed in the Neues Museum, Berlin.
I will have a couple more cloaks with different decorative designs at Chester. I never do two of the same type to reflect what we already know about the highly indiidualised nature of Coptic textiles.
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Thought i'd post this here, I'm quite excited about this new cloak I have made for Marc Byrne from Britannia. The couched and stemmed decoration is taken from a late 4th Century coptic Orbiculi fragment in the Brooklyn museum of Art. This item is the joint work of myself and my friend Josie Barton who is a tapestry weaver and needlework professional of 40yrs. The fringing is hand knotted in spacing based upon detailing displayed in the Neues Museum, Berlin.
I will have a couple more cloaks with different decorative designs at Chester. I never do two of the same type to reflect what we already know about the highly indiidualised nature of Coptic textiles.
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Claire Marshall
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