Textile fragment with flowers and lozenges
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and lozenges
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of linen, dyed dark-blue; one piece of linen embroidered with pink, red, and dark-blue silk; joined with a run-and-fell seam in flax, and with an embroidered hem
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Object type
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Dimensions
33.5 x 19.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric (floral), along length/width 26 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (blue), along length/width 17 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 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.
EA1984.411
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Catalogue text
A wide inlet of ?undyed linen has an overall design of small pink flowers and an embroidered hem with blue and red lozenges containing hook motifs.
The embroidered panel was set between two dark blue plain fabrics. It was sewn with a run-and-fell seam; along one side is a selvedge. The colour of the linen is yellow, possibly dyed.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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