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Weaving fragment with clavus
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Weaving fragment with clavus

anonymous · c. 500 - c. 699 · tapestry; tabby; wool; linen (material)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Natural-colored linen textile fragment with an attached clavus ending in an oval. In the oval a human figure in a yellow robe with a nimbus on a red ground; in the clavus a figure with a light blue and white robe and a green nimbus, above which a part of a robe in brown and yellow and two feet on a red ground. Around the oval and the clavus a border with block decoration in red, pink, yellow, white, dark and light green, and dark and light blue.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
clavus
Credit lineWeefselfragment met clavus. c. 500 - c. 699. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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