Textile fragment with palmettes and geometric shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with palmettes and geometric 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; linen backing; with stitching in yellow silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
44.5 x 43 cm max. (length x width)
lining, along length/width 20 / 17 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.
EA1993.63
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Catalogue text
There are five bands, one of which is horizontal, of palmettes and S stem designs enclosed by narrow bands with geometric floret stem design. Between them are bands of diamond lattice.
Insertions with yellow silk stitching, as well as a linen backing.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. 24 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 24
Ellis, Marianne, Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Greenville: Curious Works Press, 2001), p. 29
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