Textile fragment with six bands containing linked circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with six bands containing linked circles
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and dark-blue silk; linen backing; with hems 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
47 x 28 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 20 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.
EA1984.587
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Catalogue text
Six bands embroidered with blue linked circles, each containing a flower against the background of a red diamond.
Four of the bands are parallel to each other, two at right angles. All are sewn onto a flax backing, with hems along two sides.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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