Sampler with floral shapes, V-shapes, pendant, and chevrons
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Details
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Title
Sampler with floral shapes, V-shapes, pendant, and chevrons
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue flax, red, yellow and green silk; with two hems 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
76.5 x 29 cm (warp x weft)
8 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 4 | Conservation -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1993.343
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Catalogue text
Sampler with pairs of geometric floral motifs arranged on stems, geometric V-shaped slit neck borders and bands and an arrowhead-shaped pendant, broad chevron patterned bands and rows of triangles supporting geometric flowers.
There are two selvedges, and both short ends are hemmed.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, p. 304 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 304
