Textile fragment with swastika-filled squares
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Title
Textile fragment with swastika-filled squares
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown and red silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 19.5 cm (warp x weft)
21 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (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.
EA1984.398
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Catalogue text
A grid of small, linked squares is diagonally set into the corner of the fabric. Each square contains a swastika; the design is outlined in brown embroidery. Next to the selvedge is an additional single row of squares filled with red embroidery.
The outlines are embroidered in pattern darning running stitch, the red squares in close counted herringbone.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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