Textile fragment with two bands of ovals containing small crescents
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with two bands of ovals containing small crescents
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, tapestry woven with coloured flax; band woven with supplementary weft
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 28 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (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.
EA1984.449
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Catalogue text
Two narrow bands of tapestry weave with brown, white, yellow, and green ovals containing small crescents, against a brown background; a wider band of blue diamonds and half diamonds, woven in supplementary weft.
This fragment is not embroidered, but patterned by weave technique. The bands are at right angles to the selvedge.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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