burgosrapport.pdf

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Report on the Textiles

from Burgos Cathedral

in Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real

Madrid, Spain

Camilla Luise Dahl

Marianne Vedeler

Concha Herrero Carretero

Middelaldercentret 2008

Textiles from Burgos Cathedral

in Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real

Madrid, Spain

Textiles excavated at Burgos, now in the Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid. Top left, inv. no. 653742, bottom

left, close-up of inv. no. 653745 and right inv. no. 653742 and 651983.

The cloister church in Monasterio de Santa María la Real de las Huelgas in Burgos, Spain had been

burial site for members of the royality and nobility in Spain in the Middle Ages. Named Kings and

Queens had been buried here in the 12th to the 14th century. In 1946 several of the cofins in the

Monasterio was examined by Spanish archeaolgist Manuel Gomez-Moreno, the excavated textiles which

counted silk covers, blankets, headwear, footwear and dresses were transported to the National Museum

in Spain, Patrimonio Nacional in Madrid. Unfortunately many items taken from the cofins has not been

well documented in 1946, except for the garments and textiles discovered in the royal graves, many

discovered items are of no longer known context as it has not been documented which cofins they were

taken from.

The textiles has since been re-examined and re-conserved, now with documentation, inventory

number and description of each piece held at the Patrimonio Nacional.

In september 2006 a selection of pieces of

what has been described as head- and neckwear,

excavated in Burgos, were examined for textile

analysis and further description for a project

on medieval headwear at the Medieval Centre,

Denmark. The examination was carried out

by dr. art. Marianne Vedeler, Museum of

Cultural History, University of Oslo and mag.

Camilla Luise Dahl, The Medieval Centre,

Nykøbing, Denmark together with Dr. Concha

Herrero Carretero, head of the Department of

Conservation, Patrimonio Nacional.

The examination included 11 silk pieces,

inventory numbers: (00653737), (00653742),

(00653745), (00653753), (00653754) ,

(00653737), (00651970), (00651981), (00651982),

(00651983), (00651984), (00651985).

In 1995 these textiles were re-conserved at

the Department for Conservation at Patrimonio

Nacional by dr. Concha Herrero Carretero.

The textiles are each documented by inventory

number, material, place of origin and possible age.

The textiles were all very well preserved,

only in places where the textiles had been in direct

contact with the decaying lesh of the corpses, the

ine silk had rotten away. Human tissue still in

the textiles left brown stains on the examination

gloves.

For the project at The Medieval Centre,

Nykøbing we needed textile analysis of tread

count, tread thickness and weaving which was

carried out by Marianne Vedeler as well as

description of the methods used for creating the

unusual frilled edges on the textiles, which was

examined by Camilla Luise Dahl.

Documentation for Inv. no. 651982

Examination of the Textiles from Burgos in Patri-

monio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid.

Examination of the Textiles from Burgos in Patri-

monio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid.

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