07-14-2014, 02:11 PM
Martin Moser wrote:
Thanks for the information! I've been going through the wrong books then - do you have a reference handy with larger, singular swastikas perhaps, Graham?
Hi Martin. Many textile finds are possibly not from clothing at all. It is believed that some of those large square designs are probably from cushions.
Equally forgotten is the idea that Romans had carpets and wall hangings, we just seem to think they had frescoes and mosaics. One of the large textile finds I have seen myself with the swastika design inside appeared to have been a wall hanging. It is on display in the private collection at Katoen Natie and has been published in one of the proceedings of the Textiles from the Nile Valley conferences in Antwerp.
Clothing the House: Furnishing textiles of the 1st millennium AD from Egypt and neighbouring countries. Edited by Antoine De Moor and Cacillia Fluck. 2009 Antwerp.
Thanks for the information! I've been going through the wrong books then - do you have a reference handy with larger, singular swastikas perhaps, Graham?
Hi Martin. Many textile finds are possibly not from clothing at all. It is believed that some of those large square designs are probably from cushions.
Equally forgotten is the idea that Romans had carpets and wall hangings, we just seem to think they had frescoes and mosaics. One of the large textile finds I have seen myself with the swastika design inside appeared to have been a wall hanging. It is on display in the private collection at Katoen Natie and has been published in one of the proceedings of the Textiles from the Nile Valley conferences in Antwerp.
Clothing the House: Furnishing textiles of the 1st millennium AD from Egypt and neighbouring countries. Edited by Antoine De Moor and Cacillia Fluck. 2009 Antwerp.
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
