Textile fragment with linked crenellations and inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked crenellations and inscription
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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; with a run-and-fell seam in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1984.217
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Catalogue text
A row of small red, linked crenellations, each crowned by a trefoil and containing a blue inscription (?); diagonally placed to it is a red inscription and arabesque, as in EA1984.214, and a row of linked blue diamonds.
A run-and-fell seam divides the fragment. The similarity in design, colour, stitch and fabric structure indicates that this fragment was once part of EA1984.214, as was EA1984.218.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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