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Rarely do medieval silks convey their original luxurious quality with such brilliant gold thread. This fragment is said to have been among relics of Saint Valerio from Lérida Cathedral (in northeast Spain, near Barcelona). An elegant geometric tracery in crimson silk decorates the gold-thread ground, bordered above by four interlacing strands in ivory silk and below by two rows of "figure 8s" woven with gold thread and black silk outlines.
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110048
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Guilloche band, from a dalmatic of San Valero
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110048
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Guilloche band, from a dalmatic of San Valero
description
Rarely do medieval silks convey their original luxurious quality with such brilliant gold thread. This fragment is said to have been among relics of Saint Valerio from Lérida Cathedral (in northeast Spain, near Barcelona). An elegant geometric tracery in crimson silk decorates the gold-thread ground, bordered above by four interlacing strands in ivory silk and below by two rows of "figure 8s" woven with gold thread and black silk outlines.
date
1200s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60752541
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Textile
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 6.1 x 26.1 cm (2 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
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Spain, probably Almeria
accession
1928.65
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tapestry weave: silk and gold thread
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Guilloche band, from a dalmatic of San Valero, 1200s. Spain, probably Almeria. Tapestry weave: silk and gold thread; overall: 6.1 x 26.1 cm (2 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1928.650
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T - Islamic
citations
citation
Sangiorgi, Giorgio. “Oro Tessile.” <em>Dedalo; rassegna d'arte</em>. [Ugo Ojetti 1871-1946]. Milano; Treves, 1920. [Sangiorgi Collection].
page_number
p. 107
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Hispano-Moresque Silks from the Vestments of San Valero." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 16, no. 4 (1929): 68-75. Accessed September 30, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137205.
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p. 68-69, 74, fig. 2
citation
Los Angeles County Museum. <em>2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts</em>. 1944.
page_number
p. 17, no. 118, pl. 33
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Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. <em>2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 195</em>2. Hartford, Conn: [Wadsworth Atheneum], 1951.
page_number
p. 33, no. 66
citation
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. <em>Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East</em>. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
page_number
p. 101, no. 77
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 128
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 219
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 219
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 277
citation
Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” <em>Textile History</em> 19 (1). 1988.
page_number
p. 3-22
citation
Dodds, Jerrilynn Denise. <em>Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.
page_number
p. 332-33
citation
Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 192-193, fig. 5.25; Mentioned: P. 192
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 05:51:39.284000
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110048
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Textiles
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T - Islamic
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tapestry weave: silk and gold thread
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