Attributed works:
12. Reliquary pouch made of a samite. Woven in the 12th century in
the Eastern Mediterranean or Spain. Silk, 15 by 13 cm. (© Museum
August Kestner, Hannover; photograph Christian Tepper).
Attributed works:
4. Microphotograph (magnification 58.5x) of the woven structure
(samite) used for the back of the bag of Henry III’s great seal.
(By kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster;
Westminster Abbey, London, WAM 9464).
Attributed works:
6. Fragment used for the back (left) and front (right, rotated 180
degrees) of Fig.2. Woven before 1267 in the Eastern Mediterranean or
Spain. Silk (patterned samite with three weft systems), 11.9 by 13.4 cm.
(back), 10.2 by 12.3 cm. (front). (By kind permission of the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster; Westminster Abbey, London, WAM 9464).
Attributed works:
7. Comparison of the identical pattern repeat in the ‘hare silks’ shown
in Fig.6 (right) and Figs.8 and 9. The colour of the weft is modified
along the length of the textile (latté).
Attributed works:
Edmund, Westminster Abbey. c.1244. Stained glass. (By kind permission
of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
Western art unattributed:
1. Great seal of Henry III. 1267. Wax, 10 by 10.1 cm. (By kind permission
of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; Westminster Abbey, London,
WAM 9464).
Western art unattributed:
10. Karlsschrein. 1215. Oak, gilded silver, gilded copper, filigree,
precious stones and enamel, 204 by 57 by 94 cm. (Aachen Cathedral).
Western art unattributed:
11. Fragments from a samite found in the binding of a manuscript now
in Wolfenbüttel (Lectiones bibliccae per annum) perhaps originating
from Strasbourg. Woven in the 12th century in the Eastern
Mediterranean or Spain. Silk. (Herzog August Bibliothek,
Wolfenbüttel, Cod. Guelf. 71 Aug.2°).
Western art unattributed:
2. Inventory of the Shrine of St Edward with seal bag. 1267. Ink on
parchment, 38.2 by 34.6 cm. (inventory); silk, 11.9 by 12 cm. (seal
bag). (By kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster;
Westminster Abbey, London, WAM 9464).
Western art unattributed:
3. Microphotograph (magnification 29.5x) of the woven structure
(samite) used for the front of the bag of Henry III’s great seal.
(By kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster;
Westminster Abbey, London, WAM 9464).
Western art unattributed:
5. Shrine of St Edward, Westminster Abbey, London. Consecrated 1269.
(By kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster).
Western art unattributed:
8. Detail of Fig.9 with the starting border and left selvedge.
(© Domkapitel Aachen; photograph Ann Münchow).
Western art unattributed:
9. So-called ‘hare silk’ preserved in reliquary shrine of Charlemagne,
Aachen Cathedral. Probably woven before 1215 in the Eastern
Mediterranean or Spain. Silk (patterned samite with three weft systems),
128 by 239 cm. (© Domkapitel Aachen; photograph Ann Münchow).
