Textile industry history
They evoke the history of the first Egyptian Christians. The clothes and upholstery fabrics were found in tombs during excavations at the end of the nineteenth century.
Having reached a high point under the Macedonian dynasty between the sixth and ninth centuries, Byzantine weaving continued to seek inspiration in Sassanid Persia, which may account for the fact that figurative representation are rare as a result of the influence of Islam.
The Chinese and Japanese textile collections displayed in the museum are mainly eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The important collection of items from Sassanian and Byzantine sources
which is to be found in the Museum is mainly the result of excavations.
The most famous items of Byzantine
silk work in the museum are the shroud of St. Austremoine and the
Iranian cavaliers’ coats (Sassanid Persia 5th century) belonging to a
series of which the Textile Museum has 12 specimens, partly fragmentary, in wool, cashemire and silk, red or blue, from the excavations of Antinoë.
Coptic history fabrics collection
The ancient textile and old tapestries , usually composed of linen thread, wool, hemp, very rarely of silk, evoke the first century of our era and a civilization which bloomed in Egypt. The fabrics, found in tombs, were used for clothings and furniture by Egyptians, between the end of the second and the twelfth century AD.
Textile History
The Museum possesses French costumes, mainly dated seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most ancient textiles of the displayed costumes, either figured or embroidered were weaving in Lyon. Discover in the decorative arts museum, the textile industry history !
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