Avancées des recherches sur les tissus de provenance égyptienne conservés dans les collections publiques françaises

D. Bénazeth and M.-H. Rutschowscaya, curators in the Coptic Section of the Louvre Museum, present the results of fifteen years of researches engaged on textiles once found in Egypt and now kept in French public collections. Catalogues and publications of numerous items, identification of the pieces formerly reported, scientific analysis, works of conservation, give a new idea of the material. Here a few cases have been chosen to illustrate the reconstruction of clothes and large pieces. Technological aspects, concerning dyes and confection of the clothes, are followed by reflexions on the production and date of the preserved textiles.