Closer view of the decoration of this 7th-/8th-century Sogdian silk jacket, showing birds in pearl roundels alternating with cross-shaped lotus blossoms.pic.twitter.com/wMjEciQrjZ
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Closer view of the decoration of this 7th-/8th-century Sogdian silk jacket, showing birds in pearl roundels alternating with cross-shaped lotus blossoms.pic.twitter.com/wMjEciQrjZ
The Chinese silk damask lining of this 7th-/8th-century Sogdian jacket, Tang Dynasty: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1996.2.1 pic.twitter.com/NSiJfow5IJ
White silk trousers from the same outfit as the jacket; made from Chinese silk probably in the 8thC and ornamented with flowers & birds: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1996.2.2 pic.twitter.com/3sfISCTTIp
A small pair of boots made from the same 7th-/8th-century Sogdian silk, perhaps from the same costume: http://www.silkroad-museum.jp/silkroad-collection …pic.twitter.com/pEqsGt0DtE
A 7th-century AD Tibetan silk riding coat of Sasanian or Sogdian origin: http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp206_sasanian_persia.pdf …pic.twitter.com/5GDv0V5TrW
A Sogdian 9th-/10th-century wool coat with birds and gazelles in roundel, lined with silk: https://awalimofstormhold.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/another-sogdiana-coat/ …pic.twitter.com/scBif5SVrT
Two fragments of a 9th-/10th-century silk-embroidered garment from the burnt royal site at Llan-gors, Wales, which copies designs from Central Asian figured silks; one fragment has the charred pattern outlined in white & the other is digitally recoloured: https://museum.wales/articles/2007-05-03/The-Llan-gors-textile-an-early-medieval-masterpiece/ …pic.twitter.com/lOCKg0BqcU
A 9th-century AD silk made in Central Asia showing pairs of horsemen hunting ibexes — interestingly, this Sogdian silk's design derives from Byzantine models & the piece was preserved in the Church of Saint-Omer, France: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1974.98 pic.twitter.com/hDNRCDnFJj
How has it survived?
No other details of its history available other than that it was preserved in Tibet... :-/
Thx anyway
I'm assuming some sort of climatic preservation, similar to the textiles from Late Antique Egypt? Accepted as genuine by Feltham in Sino-Platonic Papers, 206 (2010), who also includes another v well-preserved Sasanian/Sogdian riding coat from Tibet, fwiw :)
Yeah but context, dammit
I know :-(
I want to deport all non-archaeologists to Surtsey. No archaeology there. (-;
Well, that's one solution, I guess...! ;)
Wow! A beautiful jacket made to last.
The survival of the colours is just astonishing, so many examples have faded or discoloured, but this...!
It's the condition of the ones you've posted, certainly. Others are better preserved and more akin to these, e.g. those in the 8thC Shōsōin Repository at Nara, Japan. The jacket is generally considered authentic e.g. Feltham, 2010.
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