Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes and arrows
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes and arrows
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, woven with silk warp at selvedge, and embroidered with blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 9.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
28 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
silk warp strip 1.3 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.02 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.
EA1984.188
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Catalogue text
A band with linked diamonds, each filled with arrow shapes; the band has borders with s-shapes and very small diamonds. In addition there are two remains of bands set at right angles, both with remains of the same design as the first band.
At the selvedge there is a 13 mm wide strip where the warp is very fine silk rather than flax.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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