Silk fragment with scrolling vines, grape leaves, grapes, and birds (Q60755673)
Label from: English (en)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
material used:
silk (Q37681)
fabrication method:
lampas weave (Q64037025)
time period:
Middle Ages (Q12554)
catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.75
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: This silk fragment displays a revolutionary new fashion in Italian textile design, influenced by the exotic patterns in silks imported from China, Byzantium, and Islamic countries of the Middle East. Beginning in the 1320s, instead of the static arrangement of motifs stacked one above the other, Italian designers staggered the motifs, creating asymmetry and movement. Even this fragment suggests motion through the arrangement of motifs in a curved lattice layout. However, the actual motifs—the grape leaves and bunches of grapes—remain typically Italian.
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