Sampler fragment with bands, triangles, and hexagons
Details
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Title
Sampler fragment with bands, triangles, and hexagons
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with undyed and light-blue flax, and dark-blue 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
14.5 x 37.5 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.485
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Catalogue text
A sampler with bands, triangles, and hexagons, several of them containing flowers, and one with a continuous vine made up from S-shapes.
The sampler not only records several patterns, but also different stitches. The bands are stitched in close counted herringbone, the triangles in counted straight stitch worked into a honeycomb pattern, and there are patches of slanted counted stitch. Most of it is of good quality, but the stitching with undyed flax thread is very crudely done.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. iv p. 83, vol. i
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