Il particolare caso di un manufatto tessile Asiatico: il feltro Mongolo con leoni delle nevi proveniente da una collezione privata di Firenze

The restoration and the diagnostic analysis performed on a Mongolian felt from a private collection in Florence allowed us to increase the knowledge about the making process of its production. Several fruits, seeds and wooden fragments were detected in the textile, visible from the surface. The analysis of the plant remains carried out by the Biology Department of the University of Florence provided information about the provenience of the object and the period of sheep shearing or felt making. As a consequence of the study of the red dyes by chromatographic and mass spectrometric technicques, performed by the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa, it was possible to date the ar tefact. Thanks to the research on the materials and stylistic analysis, it was possible to deduct the techniques Mongolian nomadic people used to produce this particular traditional textile.