Re: Brocade piece at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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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?   Yes, the mitre, if I remember correctly, is 12th century. 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!   Of course you can wear brocaded TW bands if you are reenacting Anglo-Saxons!  The earliest brocaded bands we have date from 7th-century England.  Please see Chapter One of EPAC.   Nancy     <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Nancy Spies Arelate Studio www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudio.html Save the earth; it's the only planet with chocolate. "But if by 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by 'Liberal,' then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal'." John F. Kennedy, 14 Sept 1960