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The Coptic Tapestry Albums: And the Archaeologist of Antinoe, Albert Gayet Book

Interweaves the creation of the Coptic textiles in the Greco-Roman city of Antinoe with their discovery by the archaeologist Albert Gayet. This book features album pages and covers illustrated in colour along with archival photographs from Gayet's expeditions. It includes technical drawings that illustrate the weaving techniques of the Copts.Read More

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    Vibrant tapestries of beribboned birds, cantering centaurs, and Dionysian dancers, woven in Coptic Egypt more than a thousand years ago, were artfully arranged in a handsome pair of albums in 1913. Some of the fabrics are shown in unique collage compositions. Sandals, spindles, and a mysterious lock of hair are assembled in a shallow box at the back of one album. Many textiles in this important collection, housed at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, were once joined by warp and weft with those from the Musée du Louvre and other major museums.

    Nancy Hoskins deftly interweaves the creation of the textiles in the Greco-Roman city of Antinoé, Egypt, with their discovery by the charismatic French archaeologist Albert Gayet (1856-1916). Gayet staged stunning exhibitions of the pieces in Paris at the turn of the century and ultimately gave them to museums or sold them. One collector, Henry Bryon, had his 144 fabrics bound into the two albums featured here.

    The album pages and covers are illustrated in glowing color, along with archival photographs from Gayet's expeditions. The style, structure, and iconography of each tapestry, tabby, and tablet-woven textile are discussed within the cultural construct of Late Antique and Early Christian Egypt. Detailed technical drawings illustrate the special weaving techniques of the Copts. Directions for six weaving projects inspired by the album fragments are included. The story of the inimitable Coptic tapestry albums will delight weavers, textile historians, art historians, and archaeologists.

  • 0295983744
  • 9780295983745
  • Nancy Arthur Hoskins
  • 30 May 2004
  • University of Washington Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
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