Textile fragment with stylized floral shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized floral shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk; needle-woven openwork; with a rolled hem in silk
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 26 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1993.300
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Catalogue text
Band with repeating stylized floral motifs arranged in chevron fashion; the band has narrow openwork borders on three sides.
A finely sewn rolled hem along one edge of the band, and a selvedge at right angles to it.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. 261 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 261
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