Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and triangles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and triangles
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
silk, twill and plain woven, dyed black or indigo, and embroidered with red, yellow, and blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 3.7 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm (thread diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
not on display
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1993.315
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Catalogue text
Line of alternating diamonds and paired triangles.
In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, p. 276 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 276
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