Textile fragment with cusped medallions and interlaced knots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with cusped medallions and interlaced knots
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown and undyed 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 15.7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
EA1993.122
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Catalogue text
Remains of a wide band with cusped medallions containing an interlaced knot, arranged in staggered rows between borders with chevrons.
"Algerian, satin and double running" and "13 -15?" written on the original card by Percy Newberry. For the honeycomb pattern see also EA1984.485.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. 83 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 83
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