Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes and hearts
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes and hearts
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
three pieces of linen, embroidered with light-blue, dark-blue, and cream silk; joined with two seams 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
22 x 22 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
EA1993.131
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Catalogue text
Three horizontal bands with double diamond shapes are flanked by two heart-shaped motifs.
Three pieces have been joined with two seams.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. 92 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 92
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