Textile fragment with eight-pointed stars and lozenges
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment with eight-pointed stars and lozenges
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue, light-green, and yellow silk; with a flat open 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
16.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 18 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
First floor | Gallery 29 | Eastern Art Paintings -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1984.416
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Catalogue text
A wide band with blue eight-pointed stars and two octagons containing lozenges embroidered blue or green, with a yellow centre.
The octagons are embroidered in counted satin stitch, all other designs in double running stitch. There is a flat open seam along one side of the embroidered area.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
