Textile fragment with grid of diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue silk; with repair stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12.5 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 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.
EA1984.231
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Catalogue text
A band filled with a grid of diamonds, each containing a cross. The band has a border with an interlace braid of two lines. The same border design appears also in a short part of the central band.
There is some mending in the central band.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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