Ecclesiastical Pomp and Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands
from Nancy Spies' book on Medieval brocaded tabletwoven bands.
Bands on the coffin burial cloth of Constanza II, nun, 13th century, Museo de Telas Medievales, Burgos.
This band was found on the coffin burial cloth of Constanza II's tomb in Sepulcher XIII. Constanza II, who died in 1242, was the daughter of Queen Berenguela and King Alfonso IX of León.
Technical Data
- Width: 4.8 cm
- Warp: red silk
- Brocade weft: ?gold thread; used single
- Number of tablets: ca. 76
- Tablets threaded in all four holes = ca. 304 warp ends
- Tablets threaded alternating S-and-Z
- Pattern: geometric based on diagonals made with blocks
Gómez-Moreno, Manuel. El Panteon Real de las Huelgas de Burgos. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1946, pp. 30, 76-80 and Plates CVIII and CIX.
Key: one square=one cord (one tablet)
circle = ?gold brocade weft
blank square = ground weave and tie-downs
- The pattern repeats between the solid black circles.
- Warp runs vertically and weft runs horizontally.
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