Textile fragment with band of decoration
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with band of decoration
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Associated place
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Date
probably 11th century (1001 - 1100)
Fatimid Period (AD 909 - 1171) -
Material and technique
linen, plain woven and tapestry woven with gold thread, flax, and coloured silk; with a run-and-fell seam in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
11 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 37 / 31 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 5 cm (width)
ground fabric .02 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.
EA1988.64
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Catalogue text
Remains of a tapestry band woven into a linen fabric. The tapestry is purple, green, red and brown silk with gold thread, as well as fine flax thread. There is a very small medallion containing an animal, possibly a rabbit with a long tail, woven in white against a purple ground.
There is a run-and-fell seam at right angle to the tapestry band. The band is 5 cm wide. It is too deteriorated to make out more of the design, but apparently the textile was of very high quality. It is likely to be of 11th century date.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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