Textile fragment with stylized plants and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue-green and yellow silk; with repair stitching, possibly in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.5 x 8.8 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 29 / 38 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1993.123
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Catalogue text
A border design of stylized flowering plants, all with yellow split stitch outlines and filled in turquoise.
Modern repair with cotton stitching.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. 84 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 84
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