Cloth inlay

Altar cloth with mythical creatures. Scandinavia (?), 135 × 130 cm, wool inlay technique, application. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Permanent loan from private collection, no. (1400–1600)

Starvation cloth or fasting velum. Geldern / Prussia, 220 × 187 cm; Woolen cloth, linen, velvet, inlay technique, application. Catholic parish of St. Maria-Magdalena, Geldern / Germany (1737)

As cloth inlay (English: inlaid patchwork) is called a rare textile technology, cut in the milled wool in parts and is sewn together with virtually invisible to stitches detailed images. The name is derived from the inlay work in wood or marble.

Only a good seventy pieces of these textile works, mostly devoted to historical topics, are known that were identified as part of a research project at the Berlin Museum of European Cultures . In 2009 an exhibition showed around 40 of these textile rarities.

literature

• Dagmar Neuland-Kitzerow (Ed.): Cloth inlays in Europe from 1500 until today. Inlaid patchwork in Europe from 1500 to the present . Museum European Cultures, SMB et al., Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2217-2 , ( series of publications of the Museum European Cultures 6), (exhibition catalog for the traveling exhibition of the same name), (German and English), content (PDF; 266 KB ) .

Web links

Commons : Inlaid Patchwork  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Exhibition website
• Article of the BZ
• Article on dw-world.de
• Note in the Handbuch der Paramentik, 1912