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Winged horses brocade silk - 7-8 century

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€10.00
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Authentic silk brocade fabric.
Main fiber silk, other fibers rayon.
Woven. Accurate copy of the original pattern.
75 cm width.

Central Asia, Uzbekistan, 7-8th century.

Suitable for a nomadic reconstruction project.

Winged horses are a common theme in Central Asia, and the fashion was also exported to Europe, through merchants on the Silk Road, and to Byzantium, which had its own workshops and sometimes imitated the style of foreign silk brocade manufacturers.
Many silk brocades with a similar arrangement are known across Central Asia.
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