Textile fragment with grid and stylized letter
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid and stylized letter
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
three pieces of linen, embroidered with blue and brown silk; joined with a flat (run-and-fell) seam in flax; with a rolled hem in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 6.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 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.
EA1984.298
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Catalogue text
Three rectangles, the two outer ones in blue, the central one with traces of brown embroidery. The design shows a grid of diagonal lines, each compartment containing a stylized letter reading 'ali', which could indicate a Fatimid origin. The use of pattern darning running stitch, on the other hand, is usually only associated with the Mamluk period. The blue bands have borders of stylised flowers.
The fragment is made up of three separate bands sewn together with a flat seam (run-and-fell), and with a rolled hem along one side.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. ii, vol. i
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