Textile fragment with diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue and pink silk; with a rolled hem 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
11.5 x 9.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.455
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Catalogue text
A wide band with dark blue diamonds and pink half diamonds, both filled with smaller diamonds. The band has an interlace border with small trefoil finials.
At right angles to the band is a rolled, whipped hem.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
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