Textile fragment from a garment with stepped S-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment from a garment with stepped S-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-brown silk; linen backing; joined with stitching in flax; with additional stitching 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
27.5 x 3.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1984.178
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Catalogue text
A narrow band has a stepped s-pattern arranged in a row. The embroidery provides the background.
The band was at the edge of a garment, as the fragment has two layers of material carefully sewn together back to back. In addition there are rows of stitches at right angles to the border and at regular intervals, to hold the two layers together.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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