Textile fragment with rosettes and stems
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and stems
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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; with a rolled hem in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 12.5 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 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.
EA1993.208
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Catalogue text
Four-petalled rosettes are linked by diagonal stems and arranged in rows of two; the remains of a single line of stitching form an edge along two sides.
There is a selvedge along one side, and a rolled hem along the side 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, p. 169 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 169
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