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Abstract
Aim of the study:
-shed light on the various styles of men and women dress fashion in Coptic Wall Paintings. It also aims to show deal with the different classifications of wall paintings in Coptic art. . This thesis deals with paintings from the earliest period untill the 18th century. Moreover, one of the main aims of the research is to focus on the imperial decoration and basic elements used in clothing industry.
Many tour operators hardly have any idea about the Coptic sites and as a result they are not included in the new programs. Even if they are included, the tour guides will not be capable to carry out their work properly due to their lack of knowledge about this period. Through this thesis, the researcher hopes that it will provide those working in the field of tourism with the basic information which they need. These were actually the main reasons for choosing the subject as well as the lack of extensive studies about this period.
Conclusion
This research helps us to know the materials, and the fibres used in the manufacture and items of clothes, centres of production and craftsmanship, the different stages of the production, and also the development of this production according to the preceding epochs. The Copts had used the weaving tools, shuttles, pins, and needles, most of which are used until today. The textile has always held a preponderant place in Egypt. The history of textile techniques used during the Byzantine era 3 - 7th century, relies on various types of sources, textual documentation remains rare because of the difficulty of determining each term.
The art of weaving, thanks to the skill of the Coptic workers, represented one of the most flourishing industries of this period in Egypt; it has also brought about important progress in the dyeing and dyeing technique, since all the fabrics used in clothing offer an extraordinary richness of color whose polychrome becomes more radiant as one moves away from the primitive period. if flax has hardly ever been dyed, the found woollen fabrics have retained very strong tones to recognize the probable use of madder, the purple, indigo, which was not in use before Roman, and an iron oxide to obtain the yellows.
The monasteries obtained their private workshops, but the centres of textile production during the Byzantine era were Panopolis, considered the centre of the rich during the 4th century, and Antinopolis, and other cities like Alexandria, Tanis, and Damietta.
This research also included scenes of the fashion dress of the Holy Men and Women in Coptic wall paintings from the earliest evidence up to the thirteenth century. The reason for the spread of a certain scenes rather than others is not clear. May be it is attributed to the skill of the artist to demonstrate the ability of christ. The Coptic artist wasn’t free to show the scenes up to his own wish, because he is guided by the events mentioned in the bible. He can’t add or invent things. He should translate the themes into pictures.
Problems relating to discovery of the scenes rest to be related to the era of their discovery. Of the most significant problems that face art historians and researchers is that of accuracy of dating scenes and giving the real facts about their origin and state at the point of discovery. The reason behind that is either theft of some of the artefacts, thus detaching it from its original existence, or providing false information about them to escape legal penalties of confiscation.
Unfortunately dating was therefore based on relating the scene to the style or the history of the construction, the type of the inscriptions, or signature by an artist functional at that period. An example of that is found in the monastery of Aba Apollo at Bawit in Upper Egypt and the monastery of Saint Jeremiah at Saqqara.
The ecclesiastical clothes are of the same technique, and materials, with the exception of the model which is completely different. the artistic elements appearing on the clothes help us to understand the influence of the pharaonic art and the Greco-Roman art, besides the novelties of the Coptic art. The representation of children during the Pharaonic era naked, or dressed in a pagane leaving the upper part of the body naked continued to appear on murals during the Byzantine era.