Textile fragment with vine and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vine and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk; with stitching 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
18 x 5.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 2.3 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 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.
EA1984.266
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Catalogue text
A narrow band contains a continuous vine with red and yellow leaves; the band has brown border lines. Along one side of the band is a thinner tendril with blue buds alternating with red trefoils. The embroidery creates the design.
The band has a width of 2.3 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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