Flax land carpet
The plains carpet is an established in 1470 Tapestry (Tapestry), which consists of two parts today. He got the name from the client, the Röttler Landvogt Hans the Younger of Flachslanden . It is kept in the Basel Historical Museum .
history
Hans von Flachslanden gave the carpet to his second wife Barbara von Breitenlandenberg for the wedding. The year of manufacture and the wedding are mostly dated to the year 1468, while Schubring suggests "around 1470".
During Flachslanden's tenure as governor, a Burgundian knitting master worked at Rötteln Castle, who worked with a flat knitting chair with step pedals. The report of the pilgrim Hans von Waltheim from Halle an der Saale , who visited the castle on July 9th 1474 on his return journey from southern France, gives testimony to this . The work with the step loom had been an independent profession since the High Middle Ages , which was practiced by men.
It is not clear whether the Flachsland carpet was actually made in the castle or in nearby Basel.
Waltheim particularly admired the tapestries. He wrote:
“[…] That was the prettiest work of pictures, of faces, of clothing, of animals and flowers and of other works, just as if it were alive, like I have not seen many. [...] "
It remains to be seen whether Waltheim also saw the Flachsland carpet here, as the Landvogt also had the Lörrach moated castle as a fief and the wall hanging was possibly already hanging there, as was the case after the Landvogt's death.
A description of the carpet can be found in a publication from 1923. It seems to have been divided back then.
The carpet has been in the Basel Historical Museum since 1981, which it bought for CHF 2.6 million at a London auction. Previously it was privately owned in southern Germany.
description
“The originally approx. 506 cm long picture strip measures 123 cm - 128.5 cm in height and has a fabric density of 24–32 weft and 6–7 warp threads / cm².” The wall hanging is made of wool with vegetable Fabric has been dyed. As dyes in the carpet could u. a. Färberkrapp (red), dyer's woad (blue), dyer's gorse (yellow), orseille (violet) can be detected. The purple color has faded today and is only preserved on the back.
The knitting shows a representation of wild people on the hunt, the wild people here being peaceful nature people. They live "in harmony with the flora and fauna". The picture does not show an ordinary hunt and falcon, but wild people whose aim is “to catch the affection of the opposite sex.” A stag is hunted, the symbol of loyalty.
On the left of the picture a young woman says goodbye to her husband to go hunting. One of the dogs bites into a deer that is held up by a woad fence. Another pair of wild people is building a second woad fence. Further to the right, a young hunter with wooing Saufeder a falconer . The fourth pair consists of a young man with a hip horn on a bandolier and a club, who hands a hunted quail to his partner .
Under the feet of the Wild People is a lawn bench with numerous plants that are so precisely worked that their species can be recognized. Pointed arches with acanthus fronds , under which parrots can be seen, stretch over the heads .
The following images are provided with picture notes (annotated), which are visible in the detailed display and explain banners and coats of arms.
- Flax land carpet
Left part
Right part
literature
- Anna Rapp Buri and Monica Stucky-Schürer : The Flachsland Carpet. Wild people hunting deer. A Basel knitted carpet around 1468 , Baumann & Cie, Banquiers , Basel 1989 ( Basler Kostbarkeiten 10).
- Klaus Schubring : Comments on the flax land carpet . In: Das Markgräflerland, Issue 2/1995, pp. 75–85 ( digitized version from Freiburg University Library ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see thrust ring p. 80
- ^ Albert Werminghoff : The Upper Baden region in the pilgrim book of Hans von Waltheim from the year 1474/75. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine , 1922, vol. 76 / NF 37, p. 79. ( archive.org )
- ↑ see thrust ring SS 82; Buri (p. 30) comes to the conclusion that the production took place in a Basel knitting studio.
- ^ Sophie Stelzle-Hüglin: Home decor at Rötteln Castle. Oven ceramics from Gothic and Renaissance. P. 637
- ↑ see thrust ring p. 83
- ↑ see Rudolf F. Burckhardt: Gewirkte Bildteppiche des 15th and 16th centuries in the Historisches Museum zu Basel , Leipzig 1923, pp. 34–36; here after Buri p. 6
- ↑ Basler Wirkteppiche , press release from the Historisches Museum Basel, February 17, 2004.
- ↑ There are indications that he had been to Wolfegg Castle , see Schubring, p. 84, note 2
- ↑ Buri p. 6
- ↑ see Buri p. 7
- ↑ see Buri p. 8
- ↑ In Kleinbasel there has been the Honorary Society of Heren since 1384, whose coat of arms holder is the "Wilde Mann". However, this mask bears the traits of a wild primordial fellow. See also Der Vogel Gryff and the Kleinbasler honor societies on the homepage altbasel.ch; accessed on April 3, 2019
- ↑ Buri p. 8
- ↑ Buri p. 25
- ↑ see Buri p. 25
- ↑ Parrots have not only been known in Europe since the discovery of America. There were parrots in West Africa too. As early as the 13th century, the noble society of Psittichers in Basel had a green parrot (psittacus) on a white background as a symbol. See also Psitticher and Sterner .