"Saint-Julian Rimini" silk - 9/10 century

Authentic silk brocade fabric. Main fiber silk, other fiber rayon.
Woven. Accurate copy of the original pattern.
You can choose the desired lenght, from 20 to 250cm.
75 cm width.

Will be suitable for Carolingian, Byzantine, Ottonian reconstruction, and even Magyar, as they fought in Northern Italy in the end of the 9th century.
This samit, coming from Byzantium would be dated from the 9th or more probably from the beginning of the 10th century.

This fragment of fabric comes from the tomb of Saint-Julien, in Rimini and was probably placed under the head of the deceased, serving as a cushion. If we believe the tradition, this shroud would have been a gift given by the emperor Otto 1st to the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul. Another theory, much less credible, tells that the relics of Saint-Julien (died in the 4th century) could have reached the monastery in a chest stranded on a beach, then verified by the religious.