Sampler fragment with vine scroll
Details
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Title
Sampler fragment with vine scroll
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk; with remains of seams in blue flax
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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 12 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 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.
EA1984.501
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Catalogue text
A sampler fragment with a large blue vine scroll, a yellow and a red cross or stylized plant, and four bands embroidered brown, blue, green, and yellow. The green band contains triangles, and the blue one S-shapes.
Remains of seams sewn with blue running stitch are along two sides.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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