Samite
Samite was a luxurious and heavy
Structurally, samite is a
Origins and spread to Europe
Fragments of samite have been discovered at many locations along the
The
Very quickly he took a translator and a large dromedary loaded with silver cloth, called "samite" in our language. He sent them to our fine, brave men...[13]
The Fourth Crusade brought riches unknown in the West to the crusaders who sacked Constantinople in 1204, described by Villehardouin: "The booty gained was so great that none could tell you the end of it: gold and silver, and vessels and precious stones, and samite, and cloth of silk..."[14]
Use in Medieval Europe
Samite was a royal tissue: in the 1250s it features among the clothing of fitting status provided for the innovative and style-conscious English king
In the wrong hands, samite could threaten the outward marks of social stability; samite was specified among the luxuries forbidden the urban middle classes in
See also
Notes
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary Online "samite" (subscription required), accessed 30 December 2010
- ISBN 978-0-300-11117-0, p. 297.
- ^ George E. Linton, The Modern Textile Dictionary, NY, 1954, p. 561
- ^ ISBN 0-521-34107-8, p. 343
- ISBN 0-88854-256-9, p. 180.
- ^ George S. Cole, A Complete Dictionary of Dry Goods, Chicago, W. B. Conkey company, 1892
- ^ Clothing Of The Thirteenth Century, 1928 on-line text)
- ^ For an example, see "The Silk Road", Metropolitan Museum of Art website, retrieved 24 May 2008
- ^ Woven Textiles: Textiles from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Gallery Les Enluminures Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 24 May 2008
- ^ Carolyn Priest-Dorman, "Viking Embroidery", noting published excavations of graves at Valsgärde, Sweden.
- ^ Muthesius, "Silk in the Medieval World", p. 332-337
- Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom, "The Mirage of Islamic Art: Reflections on the Study of an Unwieldy Field", The Art Bulletin 85.1 (March 2003:152-184), p. 154, fig. 1.
- ^ On-line translated text Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Villehardouin, Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople (on-line text).
- ^ Noted by James F. Willard, reviewing Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III, A.D. 1251-1253 in Speculum, 4.2 (April 1929:222–223).
- ^ Chrétien, Nigel Bryant, tr. Perceval: The Story of the Grail 2006:207
- ^ Barbara Gordon, ""Whips and angels: painting on cloth in the medieval period" (on-line text preserved at archive.org).
- ^ Her figure 12.
- ^ Louvre website Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Diane Owen Hughes, "Regulating women's fashion", in A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages, Georges Duby et al. (Harvard University Press) 1992:139.
- ^ San Giovanni's banner.
- ^ Villani, Chronicle, quoted in Richard C. Trexler, Public Life in Renaissance Florence (Cornell University Press) 1980:257f.
External links
- Embroidered red samite cope from 1270
- Samite robe 8th-11th century CE Aga Khan Museum
- Child's coat Sogdian samite silk, 8th century, Pritzer collection, Chicago (Julianna Lees Flickr album, pearl roundel in close-up)
- Sogdian samite silk child's coat 8th century (Julianna Lees Flickr album)
- Textile samples from New York's [Metropolitan Museum]
- Samite fragment from [Turfan], with pattern in weave (broken link)