Textile fragment with rectangle containing squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rectangle containing squares
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red, dark-blue, and brown silk; with an overcast hem and two open seams, possibly 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
16 x 11 cm (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 25 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1984.618
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Catalogue text
A rectangle is filled with squares outlined in red and dark blue close counted herringbone stitches; every second square has remnants of brown herringbone embroidery. Along all four sides there is a brown border worked in double running stitch, now badly deteriorated.
An overcast hem on three sides, as well as two open seams.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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