Textile fragment with circles and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circles and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue, brown, and pink silk, and flax or possibly cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 3.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 28 / 28 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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.
EA1984.118
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Catalogue text
A narrow band is divided into small rectangles, each with a single white rosette with six petals, some of these with remains of a pink centre. The rosettes are set into a blue circle against a brown background. White flax stem stitch provides the frames of the compartments.
The fragment has been radiocarbon dated to 1212 +/- 50.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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