Textile fragments found in the deanery of the Abbey of Sint Truiden in Belgium, were dated early 16th century.
“Authenticated bones were wrapped up in textile fragments and were seen as Benedictine treasures of the Meuse region.”
Published in “Stof uit de kist” ISBN 90-6831-338-X D. 1991/0602/16
The pattern of one of the fragments has the same pattern as those in the canvas of El Greco ‘s “Vision of Saint John”(1608-14) and in Velázquez’s “Adoration of the Magi” (1619)
quote…“The first goal is to record all this knowledge, and preserve it,” says Loermans, who aims to create a database of weaving patterns and paintings. She hopes that researchers and conservators will start recording details about textile weaves in the canvases they treat and reach out if they find complex patterns.”
….thank you Catherine Dauriac and Alain Camilleri at Alliance for European Flax-Linen & Hemp for writing and publishing “Secrets of Old Masters” in this amazing book
Thank you Janina Poskrobko, Cristina Balloffet Carr and the excellent team at the Department of Textile Conservation, for these contributions to the 50Th Anniversary Newsletter, I feel honoured!
…thank you very much Birat Raj Bajracharyafor inviting me to the Buddhist Art Gallery in Patan, Lalitpur, Kathmandu Nepal.
Thank you all for the beautiful meeting, sharing love for and knowledge about canvases.
Special interview this month in Friends of Haptic and Hue with @helenaloermans, the woman who realised that many of the Old Masters painted onto complex hand woven linen. She has dedicated her time to deciphering the different weaves and researching the canvases. Listen to the secrets she has discovered in The Weave Beneath – The Canvases of the Old Masters.
Please click on the image to listen to the podcast…
Thank you so much Cynthia Schwarz Ian MCClure and Jim Coddington for such a brilliant open source publication.
Thank you João Mariano for the excellent capture of the textiles 
See the open source publication here https://gty.art/43vfX4V
…see the full paper with a click on the picture below :
