Textile fragment with double-palmette
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with double-palmette
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk; with two rolled hems 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 7.2 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1993.118
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Catalogue text
A band with an ornate trefoil design; the pattern is defined by the ground fabric and a yellow outline worked in split stitch, the background is dark blue.
Most of the outline stitching has disappeared. The two sides of the band have finely sewn rolled hems.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, p. 79 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 79
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