Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk; with a rolled hem in silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (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.
EA1984.558
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Catalogue text
A band is filled with a single row of linked red diamonds, each with a cross at the centre; the space between the diamonds is filled with blue triangles. In addition there are border bands along both sides of the band, filled with fine blue triangles and framed with a single row of red interlace.
At right angles to the band is a rolled whipped hem. There is the beginning of an additional blue embroidery design, but it is so fragmentary that the pattern cannot be read.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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