Textiles from the Tomb of St. Wenceslaus at Prague Castle (Czech Republic)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F23%3A00575191" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/23:00575191 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.sarks.fi/masf/masf_12/MASF12_18_Bravermanova_et_al.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.sarks.fi/masf/masf_12/MASF12_18_Bravermanova_et_al.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Textiles from the Tomb of St. Wenceslaus at Prague Castle (Czech Republic)

Original language description

The collections of Prague Castle contain a valuable assemblage of textiles from the tomb of St. Wenceslaus (died in 935). The remains of the prince were brought from Stara Boleslav to Prague Castle several years after his death and deposited in the south apse of the St. Vitus Rotunda. The grave was still in the same place centuries later, and in the Middle Ages an above-ground tomb and altar were built and subsequently modified. The prince’s remains and grave inventory, mainly textiles, were exhumed in 1911, both from the altar and from the lead chest below the level of the tomb. A total of 18 different fabrics were restored in 2002–2003 and a textile-technological study was conducted, the specimens were evaluated in 2018 and 2019. The fabrics come from a broad period of time, i.e. from the 11th–12th century up to the 15th century. The greatest number date to the 13th–14th century. The areas where they were manufactured are located in all of the silk production centres of the period – in northern China, central Asia, the Near East, Egypt, Sicily, Spain and Italy. With the exception of the earliest fabric, which was woven using the weft-faced compound twill (samite) technique, the others are lampas weaves. Unpatterned textiles are in tabby or twill weaves. The fabrics from the tomb of St. Wenceslaus are secondary relics, i.e. artefacts that came into contact with the relics of the saint.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-00166S" target="_blank" >GA19-00166S: Textiles from archaeological contexts at Prague Castle - relics of Czech rulers, their family members and Church dignitaries</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Interdisciplinary approaches to research of North and Central European archaeological textiles. The proceedings of the North European Symposium for Archeological Textiles (23rd–26th August 2021 in Oulu)

ISBN

978-952-69942-1-5

ISSN

1799-8611

e-ISSN

1799-8611

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

221-234

Publisher name

Archaeological Society of Finland

Place of publication

[Oulu]

Event location

Oulu

Event date

Aug 23, 2021

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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