Textile fragment with half-diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with half-diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk; with a rolled hem 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
38 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
EA1984.174
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Catalogue text
Five narrow bands, all with the same design of four half diamonds linked into a cross-shape, and a diagonal. The blue embroidery defines the design.
There is a rolled hem on three sides of the fabric. Three of the bands are parallel to the longer hem, and two are at right angles, set at either end of the group of three. The width of the bands is 1 cm.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
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