Textile fragment with squares and possibly quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares and possibly quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, woven with silk warp at selvedge, and embroidered with dark-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
23 x 11 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
at selvedge 40 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1984.208
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Catalogue text
Two bands are parallel to each other, but set apart. Their design is made up from small squares containing ?quatrefoils; they also have a border with a small comb pattern. The bands are set diagonally to a very narrow border band with a continuous stylized vine, placed parallel to the selvedge.
At the selvedge the flax warp is replaced by silk, which results in a much higher warp threadcount of 40 per centimeter.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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