Lampas textile silk and gold Italy second half of 14th century.jpg

Lampas is a type of luxury fabric with a background weft (a "ground weave") typically in taffeta with supplementary wefts (the "pattern wefts") laid on top and forming a design, sometimes also with a " brocading weft". Lampas is typically woven in silk, and often has gold and silver thread enrichment.

History

Lampas weaves were developed around 1000 CE. Beginning late in the 17th century western lampas production began centered in Lyon, France, where an industry of providing for French and other European courts became centered.

Gallery

File:Lampas with rabbits silk and gold Iran or Irak 14th century.jpg, Lampas textile in silk and gold, Iraq, 14th century, Musée de Cluny
File:Italian silk furnishing fabric, late 17th-early 18th century, lampas weave.JPG, Silk furnishing fabric, lampas weave, Italy, late 17th-early 18th century, Honolulu Museum of Art
File:Man's silk waistcoat with sleeves c 1715.jpg, Man’s bizarre silk sleeved waistcoat, France, c. 1715. Silk satin with supplementary weft patterning bound in twill (lampas). LACMA M.2007.211.40
File:Man's coat silk lampas 1745-50.jpg, Man’s coat, France, 1745-1750. Silk plain weave with supplementary weft patterning bound in plain weave (lampas). LACMA M.2007.211.795
File:Chateau Versailles cabinets interieurs de la Reine cabinet du Billard.jpg, Lampas brocaded with silk and chenille, rewoven for the billiard room of the ''petit appartement'' of Marie-Antoinette at Versailles.

References

* Abbott, James A. ''A Frenchman in Camelot: The Decoration of the Kennedy White House by Stéphane Boudin.'' Boscobel Restoration Inc.: 1995. .
*Colenman, Brian and Dan Mayers. ''Scalamandre: Luxurious Home Interiors.'' Gibbs Smith: 2004. .
*Jenkins, David. ''The Cambridge History of Western Textiles.'' Cambridge University Press: 2003. .

Woven fabrics

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