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Just checked my copie of EPAC (Nancy's book) and apparently the piece is
"a fragment of the band used to make the infulae on a mitre now in the
Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg". So presumably the mitre itself is more
securely dated?
Anyway, this brings to my mind the arguments in certain English
re-enactment societies as to whether Anglo-Saxons should wear
tablet-woven bands. I guess this band suggests that yes they can, so
long as they are made of silk using 108 tablets and you portray a bishop!
Shelagh
Michael wrote:
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Eckhard,
I got a chance to ping Nancy Spies and ask her - she
said: (pasted out of an
IM window) -
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I know that piece well. I studied it for EPAC and you
can see info about it
there. The main part of this band is in Switzerland.
LA has a tiny bit.
Someone obviously cut it up and made more money that
way, the idiots.
You can see info on it on page 278 (of Ecclesiastical
Pomp and Aristocratic
Circumstance)
The band is worked mainly in soumak wrapping with some
brocading. Soumak
wrapping is distinct from brocading as it does not
just float on the surface
but wraps around threads as it goes across. I got very
good at recognizing
it! But the band is, yes, TW.
+++++++++
Nancy's citation lists the same information on
provenance as the LA Museum's site, but in more
detail:
Provenance: probably Anglo-Saxon England / Insular or
continental Insular influence; ?Persian (Flanagan)
I don't know if this means that the trim was made in
Persia and used in England, but that's what it sounds
like to me.
Michael
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