Textile fragment with scrolls
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with scrolls
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue and brown silk; with a hem in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 9 cm max. (warp x weft)
25 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 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.
EA1984.387
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Catalogue text
Three bands with a continuous scroll design of linked S-shapes, with the embroidery providing the background. There are fragmentary remains of a fourth band with brown embroidery, the design of which cannot be read.
Traces of brown embroidery are also found in one of the bands. The width of each band is 3 cm. They are at right angles to the selvedge and a hemmed edge opposite it.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. iii, vol. i
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