Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes and stylized vines
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes and stylized vines
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue cotton; with a hem 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
28.5 x 7 cm (warp x weft)
16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (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.
EA1984.177
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Catalogue text
A wide central band with linked diamonds, densely embroidered, has a narrow border band on either side with a stylized vine and tendrils. For these bands the embroidery fills in the background. Stylized plants are embroidered at right angles along the narrow end of the bands.
There is a stitched hem along one side with a selvedge.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. ii, vol. i
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