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Historical stamps catalogue

We faithfully reproduce many historical patterns, inspired from manuscripts, silk brocade, or directly reproduced from archaeological datas, dated from the end of antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages.

These stamps are all usable within the framework of the tailor-made realization of your costume.

Byantine - around 1000 AD.
From Basile II's Menologion manuscript.
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Byzantine - 800-950 AD.
Pattern extracted from the "Rimini Lion" silk brocaded fabric.
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German - around 1400 AD.
From an original stamped artifact.
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Chernigov, alternative design.
Rus / Byzantine - 900-1100 AD.
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Byzantine "arrow" stamp - All allong the middle age.
Iconographical evidences, for such types of stamping are numerous, thoughout the Byzantine periods. Such patterns are especially common on trousers, and sometimes, tunics.
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Early romanesque stamping print - 950 - 1100 AD.
From an original artifact, stored in Liege, Belgium, and dated late 10th -11th century. Iconographical evidences dated to the 10th century ("Registerum Gregorii") are sustaining the archaeological datas, allowing us to better understand how this pattern was stamped on fabrics.
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Early romanesque stamping pattern - 950 - 1100 AD.
From an original artifact, stamped, dated around late 10 - early 11th century.
Suitable for late carolingian, and Ottonian reenactors, as example.
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Byzantine eagle - 900-1050 AD.
Pattern extracted from the Two-headed eagle on the Shroud of St. Amadus
10 -12th c. Riggisberg, Abegg-Stiftung.
A very classical pattern composition, across the whole Europe.
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Kufic birds. Central Asia / Seldjukid.
1050 - 1200 AD.
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Byzantine - Magyar
Estergozm pattern / fresco. 900 - 1100 AD.
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Byzantine - North Italy - Carolingian.
San'Afra, Brescia. 850 - 1100 AD.
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Central Asia - Byzantine - 800-1000 AD.
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Central Asia - Byzantine - 800-1000 AD.
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Central asia - 750-950 AD.
(Very common pattern, directly copyed from silk brocades exported untill the carolingian world. Many of these brocades are now stored in our churchs treasuries, like the Sens Cathedral, France, as example)
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Central Asia - 800-950

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Byzantine - 1000 - 1200 AD.
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Rus / Byzantine - 900-1100 AD.
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Byzantine - Carolingian 900-1200 AD.
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Rus / Byzantine - 900-1100 AD.
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Rus / Eastern import from China (Gnezdovo) - 900-1000 AD.
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Allanic (Nomadic tribes) - 850-1000 AD.
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Byzantine - 1050 - 1200 AD.
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Byzantine - 950-1200 AD.
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Western European - Spanish or Frankish - 1100-1250 AD.
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Central Asia - 650-850 AD.
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Central Asia & Western European - 950-1200 AD.
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Byzantine - Sicily - 1150 - 1300 AD.
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Byzantine / Coptic - 500-800 AD.
A few later similar textiles are known.
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Italy - Byzantine influenced - 1250-1400 AD.
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