Textile fragment with eight-lobed rosette
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with eight-lobed rosette
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
37 x 32.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.6 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.
EA1984.477
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Catalogue text
A large eight-lobed rosette has a lotus flower in each petal; two tendrils emerge from the lotus. At the centre of the rosette is a star containing a hexagon with further floral motifs. The design is defined by brown stem stitch outlines, the background is blue slanted counted filling stitch worked in diagonal rows.
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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