Textile fragment with grid of diagonal lines
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of diagonal lines
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue cotton and light-blue thread, possibly flax; with hems in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
15 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1984.410
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Catalogue text
A rectangle filled with a grid pattern of diagonal lines, of which the intersections create small and large diamonds. The lines are embroidered dark blue, using double running stitch, the larger of the diamonds are embroidered with light blue slanted counted filling stitch worked on the diagonal.
The two long sides of the cloth are hemmed.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, vol. iii, vol. i
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