Cloth with S-shapes linked with small crosses
Details
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Title
Cloth with S-shapes linked with small crosses
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue and light-blue flax, and brown cotton or silk; with a repair seam 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
33 x 25 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (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.
EA1984.412
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Catalogue text
The rectangular cloth has narrow bands with identical designs along all four sides. The pattern is made up of S-shapes linked with small crosses. Along the two short sides is a single band each, embroidered in brown cotton or silk, with a light blue rectangle in one corner, containing an S-shape and small triangles, and with border lines embroidered in flax thread. The two long sides have three bands each, of which two are not completed. The three bands next to the selvedge are dark blue, the other three are brown.
There is a selvedge along one long side of the cloth, and a crudely done mending seam in the middle.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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