Textile fragment with diamond-shapes containing rectangles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes containing rectangles
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with turquoise and blue 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 14.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.02 cm min. (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.
EA1984.519
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Catalogue text
A band with four turquoise diamond shapes, each embroidered in slanted counted filling stitch worked in diagonal rows and containing a rectangle with an inscription in dark blue running stitch. All outlines are embroidered in double running stitch.
The band is set between a selvedge on one side, and a finely rolled and whipped hem on the other.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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