Sampler with geometric design, stars, and creatures
Details
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Title
Sampler with geometric design, stars, and creatures
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue flax and silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
111 x 67 cm (warp x weft)
16 / 10 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm min. (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.
EA1993.353
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Catalogue text
Sampler with V and U shaped bands and pendants with geometric designs and scattered isolated motifs including stars and creatures.
The former accession number was 1956.895.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. 314 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 314
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