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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 7.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1984.218
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Catalogue text
A row of small red crenellations with a trefoil peak and blue inscription, and diagonally placed against it is a red inscription band and a small blue band of linked diamonds, as in EA1984.217.
The similarity in design, colour, stitch and fabric structure indicates that this fragment was once part of EA1984.214 and EA1984.217.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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