| Dalmatic of the Holy Roman Emporer |
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Sicily, Palermo, Royal
Workshop, 1130 - 1140, Period of King Roger II. The dalmatic is of deep purple silk. The apparles illustrated, however, - a cuff and the lower border - are made of a silk material resembling that of the Coronation Mantle. The gold thread is underside couched, but on the cuff the gold is in the form of minute tubes with the couching thread passed through them. Pearls, gold plaques, enamels and filigree work. According to Fillitz the garment may belong to the same set of vestments as the Coronation Mantle. Lit.: H. Fillitz, Die Insignien und Kleinodien des Heiligen Romischen Reiches. Vienna-Munich 1954, p. 58, Figs. 27, 28 - P. E. Schramm and F. Mutherich, Denkmale der deutschen Kinige und Kaiser, Munich 1962, p. 182, No. 181 Source: Schuette, Marie and Sigrid Muller-Christensen: Pictorial History of Embroidery ; NY: Frederick Praeger, 1964.
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Deep Purple Silk Dalmatic of 1130-40
Source:
"Medieval Craftsmen: Embroiderers," by Kay Staniland,
University of Toronto Press, 1991, p. 46. |
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