Report on the Textiles from Burgos Cathedral - Middelalder Centret

groups, with three stripes and two stripes in each
group. The group with two stripes is located in the
far end of the band, and this end is fragmented.
There is a clear possibility that this group originally
consisted of three stripes.
All stripes are made in the same colors, white,
brown and red.
Construction of stripe 1:
1 brown weft thread, 1 white weft thread, 1 brown
weft thread, 4 white weft threads. Along this white
central part of the stripe, 4 threads in red color
are sewn in with simple running stitches. The red
threads form rectangles in the centre of the stripe.
These rectangles are 0, 5-0, 6 cm long and 0, 4-0,
5 cm wide. In the other end of the stripe, there is 1
brown weft thread, 1 white weft thread and 1 brown
weft thread. All the other stripes are made in the
same way.
Between the tree inner stripes there is a distance
of approximately 1, 8 cm. At the end of these tree
stripes there is a 3, 5 cm wide break before the last
two stripes separated by 2, 2 cm. The thickness of
3
threads in the stripes is:
Red: 0, 9-1 mm
Brown: 0, 6-0, 7 cm
White: 0, 2-0, 3 mm
Fig. 5
Fig. 4
No 653742. Selvedge
and additional band
each 1, 5-1, 6 cm
wide.
Photograph: Marianne
Vedeler
Fig. 5
No 653742. Decorative
coloured stripes:
width: 0,4-0,5 cm.
Photograph: Marianne
Vedeler
No 653737
From unidentified grave in the monastery Santa
María la Real de Huelgas, Burgos.
Material: Silk. There is a possibility that other
materials could have been used in the decoration.
A fragmented band in golden silk, with stripes
in contrasting colors. The largest fragment is
approximately 90 cm long and 15 cm. wide. The
fragment is decorated with 7 groups of stripes, each
group consisting of 3 stripes.
In the centre (between each group of stripes), there
is a 9, 5 cm wide field in tabby silk of gauze-quality.
On both sides of this field, thicker warp threads are
used in a 1, 7 cm wide area, reaching the selvages
on both sides. Both long sides are pleated.
A ribbon, 1, 3-1, 4 cm wide, is sewn to the silk band