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Medieval clothing Series - Byzantine

After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, European civilization has entered a dark period. Little to the European dress during this period, the only exception to the Byzantine Empire. In the early Middle Ages, Byzantine popular European clothing center.

During the sixth century Byzantine clothing culture is characterized by extensive use of silk (Byzantine through the Silk Road from China, import large quantities of raw silk and silk fabrics common, and then re-dyeing and finishing process to become popular in Europe's luxury goods), embroidery and hemp for the warp and wool for the weft of the tapestry. Textiles has a strong oriental flavor, and mixed with a large number of Christian content. Such as the circle symbolizes infinity, sheep and a symbol of Christ, the dove a symbol of the holy spirit; colors have also been given a religious meaning: White - purity; blue - divine; Purple - prestige; Green - Youth; gold - good deeds, etc. .

Byzantine period, little difference between men and women clothing styles, so the following three garments are unisex, and only in the cutting and garment decoration on the details of distinction.

The most common is the nobility dressed dalmatica, early in fact it is very simple kinds of clothing, almost barrel, and have two bands known as the clavi style decoration. Later, an increase in the shape of sleeves, straight barrel part of the trunk also used the belt. Turkic-cum-style jacket. Coat is usually worn next to the skin under the tunica.

tunica is the oriental nation imported from a garment, it is not specialized underwear can also be used as a jacket (at the time as if this distinction is not strict). Are generally wool fabric, the length arrived lap, trunk tie. Sleeves long and thin. When used as the time is usually dressed in white underwear.
Royalty and great nobles of the formal jacket is paludamentum, this coat is characterized by large and does not reveal the body lines. Its style may be to cut a rectangular piece of fabric into the corners Xiecai ladder, wearing a Phi in the left shoulder, when, in the right shoulder tie. paludamentum brilliant colors (purple emperor and the Queen are available), extensive use of precious stones and gold embroidery techniques, can not be regarded as a negligee. So often paludamentum which even wearing dalmatica or tunica.

In order to illustrate the image of the Emperor Justinian: its use of purple clothing paludamentum surface (should be silk), where the child uses a different color. In paludamentum have special decorations around the front and rear, such decoration is called Tabulien. Byzantine Empire is the unique symbol of nobility. This pattern is paludamentum the Tabulien grounding on the golden embroidered red circle with the arrangement of birds.

Women's wear paludamentum to the image of Queen Theodora as an example: the same purple fabric paludamentum, skirts where tables are decorated with gold thread, lead to use decorative stones. Wearing a white coat following dalmatica, lapel and cuffs decorated with gold and emeralds. The so-called paludamentum is a special class
dress, an ordinary person wearing paenula, then it is a thick flannel round the system of hedging style clothes. Icon painting in the Middle Ages are common.