Textile fragment with saz leaves, flower-heads, and leaves

Textile fragment with saz leaves, flower-heads, and leaves (EA1993.254, front )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Textile fragment with saz leaves, flower-heads, and leaves
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Near East (place of creation)
Date

10th - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, embroidered with light-blue and dark-blue silk
Material index

cotton;

silk
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered
Object type

textile
Dimensions

50 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 34 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm (thread diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1993.254

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Catalogue text

Band with two whole and two incomplete saz leaves filled with flower heads and small leaves; two straight border lines.

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. 215 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 215

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