Textile fragment with lobed rosettes, rhomboids, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lobed rosettes, rhomboids, and tendrils
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Associated place
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Date
11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200) -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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.
EA1993.262
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Catalogue text
A wide design field with individual six-petalled blue rosettes with red centres, separated by linked rhomboids, each of which is filled with a tendril.
Only the embroidery of the rosettes remains, although the rhombic shapes and small vines are clearly visible as outline drawings.
The fragment has a radiocarbon date of 1027 AD +/- 36.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. 223 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 223
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