Textile fragment with tendrils, trefoils, and foliate borders
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, trefoils, and foliate borders
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 26 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 5.8 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1984.373
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Catalogue text
Four bands of tendrils and trefoils, alternating in direction; the bands have foliate borders.
Three of the bands are parallel to each other, set at equal distance and at right angles to the fourth. The width of the bands is 5.8 cm.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
