Textile fragment with lozenges, arabesque, and inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lozenges, arabesque, and inscription
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 5.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.71
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Catalogue text
A 4 cm wide band is diagonally divided into lozenges, filled alternately with red arabesque and blue inscription. The inscription has become very fragmentary.
The band is very similar to EA1984.70 and was probably part of the same original fabric. Laid threads are couched down over surface satin filling stitches. Outlines are worked in stem stitch.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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