Add to ORKGVelvets are one of the most luxurious textile materials and were frequently used in furnishings and costumes in the Middle East, Europe and Asia in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries. Owing to many valuable studies on Ottoman and Italian velvets as well as Chinese and Byzantine velvets, we have learned the techniques and designs of velvet weaves, and how they were consumed. However, it is not well-known where and when velvets were started to be woven. The study will shed light on this question and focus on the origin, the historical background and development of velvet weaving, examining historical sources together with material evidence
In keeping with the theme of the symposium’s title, “Silk Roads, Other Roads,” the medieval roads th...
The Byzantine Empire (395-1453 CE) was a large cultural center that included a meshing of different ...
This work represents the most comprehensive investigation of silk in the middle Byzantine period to ...
This paper will examine the possibility of whether warp-looped pile velvets, made of silk, were wove...
For over one thousand years, velvet textiles were woven by hand with great ingenuity and artistry. T...
Velvet is a luxury cloth. Fashioned into garments, it dresses the elite. In interiors, it covers wal...
Ottoman gold-brocaded silk velvet (çatma) cushion covers from the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centu...
Woven in Iran during the seventeenth century, the magnificent velvet that is the subject of this pap...
For over two millennia, silk was one of the most important commodities in the world economy. As earl...
Since 1986, I have been pursuing my passionate interest in handwoven velvet, both practically and ac...
Much historical velvet was designed to be figural, often in elaborate curvilinear floral motifs, and...
During the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, luxury silks of Asia that had for centuries t...
A new examination of the textile fragments found in the Merovingian burials in the basilica of Saint...
This case study will explore the origins of a Turkish carpet design by discussing a thirteenth centu...
The textile that I will be discussing is the Embroidered Medallion found in the fifteenth to the six...
In keeping with the theme of the symposium’s title, “Silk Roads, Other Roads,” the medieval roads th...
The Byzantine Empire (395-1453 CE) was a large cultural center that included a meshing of different ...
This work represents the most comprehensive investigation of silk in the middle Byzantine period to ...
This paper will examine the possibility of whether warp-looped pile velvets, made of silk, were wove...
For over one thousand years, velvet textiles were woven by hand with great ingenuity and artistry. T...
Velvet is a luxury cloth. Fashioned into garments, it dresses the elite. In interiors, it covers wal...
Ottoman gold-brocaded silk velvet (çatma) cushion covers from the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centu...
Woven in Iran during the seventeenth century, the magnificent velvet that is the subject of this pap...
For over two millennia, silk was one of the most important commodities in the world economy. As earl...
Since 1986, I have been pursuing my passionate interest in handwoven velvet, both practically and ac...
Much historical velvet was designed to be figural, often in elaborate curvilinear floral motifs, and...
During the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, luxury silks of Asia that had for centuries t...
A new examination of the textile fragments found in the Merovingian burials in the basilica of Saint...
This case study will explore the origins of a Turkish carpet design by discussing a thirteenth centu...
The textile that I will be discussing is the Embroidered Medallion found in the fifteenth to the six...
In keeping with the theme of the symposium’s title, “Silk Roads, Other Roads,” the medieval roads th...
The Byzantine Empire (395-1453 CE) was a large cultural center that included a meshing of different ...
This work represents the most comprehensive investigation of silk in the middle Byzantine period to ...