Textile fragment with three octagons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with three octagons
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk
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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 26 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.520
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Catalogue text
Three octagons with eight spokes, embroidered in turquoise slanted counted filling stitch worked in diagonal rows, with dark blue outlines embroidered in double running stitch. Small yellow satin stitch triangles with fragmentary remains of brown embroidery are set between the octagons, and there is a border of turquoise and yellow lozenges. All outlines are worked in dark blue double running stitch.
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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