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<p><font size="6">The Coptic textiles and tapestries and <a href="old-tapestries.html">old
tapestries</a> - Lyon museum</font></p>
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<p><font size="+2"><i>Textile history at the Lyon Museum</i></font> : This Coptic
art, covering a period of ten centuries, was rediscovered at the end of the
nineteenth century as a result of excavations made in Egypt on the site of Antinoê,
thanks to the generosity of Emile Guimet who sponsored them. The majority of
Coptic tapestries, pictures and textiles or <b><a href="old-tapestries.html">old
tapestries</a></b> consists of fragments of clothings used by the laity. They
mainly refer to Greco-Roman mythology for their iconographic inspiration. The
symbolic material of Antiquity (Dionysus, the Nereids) gradually became christianised.
An evolution can be observed in the rendering of relief which, towards the third
century, favoured massive forms and played on the contrast of coloured surfaces.
Most of the <b><a href="coptic.html">Coptic textiles</a></b> used the <a href="decorative-arts-museum.html">technique
of tapestry</a>. They enhanced the general effect thanks to the lustre of the
threads of warp and weft creating a relief of crests and hollows. rising out
of the regular pattern. Copts were experts at using dyes and the well-preserved
dazzling colours of <b>Coptic tapestries</b>, pictures and textiles items are
evidence of their skill in Lyon. </p>
<p>Come and visit the textile collection of the <b>Lyon museum</b></p>
<p><a href="coptic.html">Coptic textiles</a> - <a href="../exposition/journee-patrimoine.html">lyon
museum</a> - <a href="../musee/textiles.html">France museum</a> - <a href="textile.html">textile
museum</a> - <a href="decorative-arts-museum.html">decorative arts museum</a>
- <a href="old-tapestries.html">old tapestries</a> - <a href="byzantine-art.html">byzantine
art </a>- <a href="byzantine-iconography.html">byzantine iconography</a> - <a href="index.html">european
museum</a> </p>
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