Textile fragment with vines and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vines and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with green and brown silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.5 x 15.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1.2 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 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.
EA1984.513
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Catalogue text
Three parallel narrow bands, set at right angles to the selvedge. Each band is filled with a continuous green vine and leaves. There are the remains of a brown border on two of the bands.
Each band is 1.2 cm wide. The bands stop 1.5 cm short of 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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