Sampler fragment with eight parallel bands
Details
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Title
Sampler fragment with eight parallel bands
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with light-blue and dark-blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 7.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 10 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.08 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.
EA1984.484
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Catalogue text
A sampler fragment with eight parallel bands or rectangles embroidered with interlacing or S-shapes.
There is a selvedge, and all bands are at right angles to it.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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