Textile fragment with pairs of palmettes and hexagons

Textile fragment with pairs of palmettes and hexagons (EA1993.132, front )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Textile fragment with pairs of palmettes and hexagons
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Near East (place of creation)
Date

10th - 15th century AD
Material and technique

linen, embroidered with blue and dark-brown silk
Material index

linen;

silk
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered
Object type

textile
Dimensions

15 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1993.132

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Catalogue text

A band with paired trefoils set within hexagons. The trefoils have brown outlines in stem stitch and are defined by the ground fabric. They have blue curving frames worked in slanted filling stitch, and there is a narrow border embroidered in stem stitch.

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, p. 93 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 93

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