Textile Studies - Visit to Musée du quai Branly - Gujarat Embroidery Textiles - Paris Anthropology Museum - ACLFieldlog

Textile Studies - Visit to Musée du quai Branly - Gujarat Embroidery Textiles - Paris Anthropology Museum

In November 2018 I  visited the the Musée du quai Branly, the Museum of Anthropology in Paris provided a broad selection of World textiles to be inspired by.

To help me focus I will look at particular pieces separately so I can log them for my textile student fieldlog.  The first piece I encountered in the Asia section of the museum, and the well lit curated pieces were easy to study and get close up to.

This piece is described as " Hanging" ..you can read the full museum description at the bottom of this post . Close up pictures of all the embroidered details are added too. This piece is ascribed to the " Ahir ethnic group" and lots of geometric symbols as well as narrative motifs make up the center piece . Decorative borders using shisha mirror embroidery are added as edging.

Textile Studies - Visit to Musée du quai Branly - Gujarat Embroidery Textiles from the Ahir ethnic group  - Paris Anthropology Museum India and Asia - ACLFieldlog

Textile Materials listed for this piece are in french as follows .. coton, fils de soie, miroirs ... now I can translate cotton and mirrors , but " Fils de soie" comes back from google translate as " Silk of Son"  .. The museum text reads it as " silk flock" ...  I am not entirely sure what that is supposed to mean .... can anyone help ??? suggestions welcome in the comments section below .. thank you

My guess would be silk fibres , or perhaps silk noil?

• closeup of Shisha Mirror embroidery , I like the way theyr are used to make narrative motif patterns rather than just decorative elements

Where: Musée du quai Branly, Paris

What: Handicraft Embroidery Textiles, Western Gujarat Region

Museum Description: Tenture, godela da kanio, Hanging, Population Ahir, Inde, Gujara, Kutch, 20th siecle, coton, fils de soie, miroirs , Mission Francoise Cousin, 71.1971.53.302

Topics : World Textiles , Hand Stitching, Hand Embroidery, Cotton, Linen, Broderie, Stickerei, Textile Student, Indian Textiles


Textile Studies - Visit to Musée du quai Branly - Gujarat Embroidery Textiles - Paris Anthropology Museum - ACLFieldlog

Textile Studies - Medieval Embroidery - Design Library - ACL Fieldlog Textiles

Textile piece from the medieval era found at the Museum of London.

This is displayed in an easy to miss place near the plaque exhibition but hang out of the light at the back wall of a glass cabinet. Well worth looking out for as it is difficult to phiotograph due to the lighting. Scroll down for a little video of this medieval embroidery.

 

Museum of London Description:

" Orphrey Fragment, early 1500s" 

Used as a decorative border for an ecclesiastical vestment, this fragment was made in a professional embroidery workshop. Few medieval vestments have survived because most were burnt during the Reformation to extract the gold and silver threads. Made in the Low Countries

ACLFieldlog Textiles 

Fieldtrip : Museum of London , October 2017

Material : Embroidery

Textile Studies - Medieval Embroidery - ACL Fieldlog Textiles Student - Opus Anglicanum - Orphrey Fragment at the Museum of London , UK