Silk damask. Green, red and blue stripes alternating with yellow/brown patterns on a blue ground.Samples of coloured threads from this object have been taken and are being analysed as part of a collaboration between the V&A and the Spanish Research project "Caracterización de als producciones textiles de la Antigüedad Tardía y Edad Media temprana: tejidos coptos, sasánidas, bizantinos e hispanomusulmanes en las colecciones públicas españolas" ("Characterization of Late Antique and Early Medieval textile production: Coptic, Sasanian, Byzantine and Spanish Muslim textiles in Spanish national collections") (HAR2008-04161) directed by Dr Laura Rodríguez Peinado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpt. de Historia del Arte I (Medieval).1400s, Hispano- MoresqueHeavy [...] woven in silk. Woven in various colours and stripes with characteristic ornaments in saffron-yellow on a purple ground. [...] From the Maria Church in Danzig.
Translation from German in Dr. Bock's Revise, 1883 - by N. Swaep. For the German text, see registers. []