Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, hooks, and triangles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, hooks, and triangles
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue silk; remains of linen; with 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
19 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 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.
EA1984.198
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Catalogue text
Two bands at right angles, one crossing over the other, and each containing a row of complex diamonds, inverted hooks, and triangles; a narrow border runs along either side. The bands are approximately 5 cm wide.
The remains of a plain linen fabric are sewn along one of the borders. There may also be a selvedge at the edge of this band.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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