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This work, in which 79 hours of design have been invested, is made in silks and gold, according to the historical tradition of Lorca embroidery, it has been carried out in collaboration with National Heritage. The Councilor for Celebrations of the City of Lorca, José Ángel Ponce, presented, this morning, together with the president of the San Clemente Federation, Luis Torres del Alcázar, and the secretary of the institution, José Antonio Pérez Soto, a replica of the Almohad banner conserved in the Huelgas Reales de Burgos. The Councilor for Celebrations of the City of Lorca has stated that "this presentation is one more activity that was planned in the initial program of the San Clemente festivities, which in the end remained in a program of commemorative events due to the current health situation , this banner was going to be presented in the Parade Parada de la Historia Medieval de Lorca ". José Ángel Ponce stressed that "it is one more element with which to continue enriching the rich cultural artistic heritage of the San Clemente Federation with the enhancement of traditional embroidery." Ponce Díaz recalled that "from the City Council they will have our support to continue making our festivals and traditions more and more relevant and that in the end it is achieved, something that we all long for, and that is nothing other than the declaration of Festivities of National Tourist Interest ". For his part, the president of the San Clemente Federation, Luis Torres del Alcázar, explained that "this Almohad banner, framed in the Vexilia collection, represents a key date in the entire heritage of the San Clemente Federation, since the Almohads Lorca became independent from the Murcian Kingdom at the hands of Muhammad ibn Alí ibn Aslí, arráez of the city in 1243. Torres del Alcázar has highlighted that "the Almohads represent the return to strict compliance with the precepts of Islam and their banner displays a composition determined by a silver frame simulating a braiding, it is organized around an eight-pointed star, which generates rosettes increasingly complex and whose intertwined stems seem to draw words ". The layout has been made by the artistic director of the San Clemente Federation, David Torres del Alcázar, in which 79 hours of design have been invested, while incorporating the layout into the ciuFRONT's collection of drawings.
The banner has been embroidered at the Clemente I Pontifical Workshops by the embroiderer Silvia Teruel from Lorca, a continuation of innovative techniques that her father, the famous broslador Damián Teruel, started.
The piece has an uninterrupted border, with small interlocking medallions and stars, framing the central rose window within a circle; Surrounding the whole is a square frame.
This border also surrounds small medallions that enclose a rampant lion.
In the corners, next to the curvilinear base, a leafy foliage develops organized in a corner palmette. One of the great contributions of this work, which is the first in the history of fully Arabic embroidery from Lorca, is found in the central composition is framed by four long bands containing nasjî calligraphy, the letters of which stand out in blue canutillo bathed in lapis lazuli powder framed in a ruby ??powder bathed ring on a golden background, used for the first time in the history of Lorca embroidery.
Eight-pointed stars interrupt the epigraphy at the corners. The lower edge is made up of eight sequined lambrequins that contain epigraphic motifs with which we can read the word Allah.
These crescents are influenced by the far-eastern motif called tchintami, frequent in Ottoman fabrics and still used in the century XIX.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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