Textile fragment with band of Z-shapes and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with band of Z-shapes and squares
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue and brown silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28 x 5.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1.8 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1984.521.a
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Catalogue text
A band with large Z-shapes alternates with squares containing a four-armed spiral; the band has a simple geometric border. Parallel to it is a very narrow row of two simple geometric shapes, possibly imitating script. All outlines are embroidered in dark blue double running stitch, while the space between the Z-shapes and squares have brown darning stitches worked over and under one thread.
The band is 1.8 cm wide, the distance to the narrow row is 3 cm.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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