Textile fragment with stylized trees and birds
On display
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees and birds
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 8.2 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 27 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm (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
First floor | Gallery 29 | Eastern Art Paintings -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1993.141
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Catalogue text
A border with stylized trees and pairs of birds with a row of triangles beneath and a narrow chevron 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, p. 102 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 102
