Textile fragment with rosettes, linked circles or hexagons, and inscription
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, linked circles or hexagons, and inscription
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red 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
15 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 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.
EA1984.74
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Catalogue text
Small, six-petalled red rosettes are set into a grid of linked circles or hexagons, now deteriorated, but with traces of blue; a red inscription is placed into the interlacing sections of the circles. The inscription reads 'barakat' (blessing).
Laid threads were couched down over surface satin filling stitches. Most of the couching has disappeared.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. ii, vol. i
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