Textile fragment with hexagons linked by hooks
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hexagons linked by hooks
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown silk; traces of silk at selvedge
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
7 x 20.5 cm (warp x weft)
22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1984.464
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Catalogue text
A band with three rows of hexagons, linked by hook motifs and each containing two rows of S-shapes and two small diamonds. The band also has a border of stylized plants.
There are traces of silk at the selvedge. The band is at right angles to 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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