Cap with triangles and stars
Details
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Title
Cap with triangles and stars
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
silk, embroidered with coloured silk; linen lining; lining sewn with a run-and-fell seam in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11 cm (height)
13.5 cm (diameter)
ground fabric (linen), along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (silk) 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
ground fabric (linen) 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 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.
EA1984.127
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Catalogue text
A cap entirely covered with embroidery; the circular band has triangles and stars embroidered with close counted herringbone and satin stitch. The crown of the cap has small square diamonds filled with buttonhole circles.
The cap's silk outer fabric is barely visible, as the embroidery is very close. The linen lining is sewn with a run-and-fell seam.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. ii, vol. i p. 15 n. 2, vol. i
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