Textile fragment with bands of linked squares, crosses, triangles, and leaves
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of linked squares, crosses, triangles, and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with black and red silk; with a hem 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
23 x 9.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 6.5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 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.
EA1984.242
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Catalogue text
A sequence of three bands parallel to each other; all three have the same width (6.5 cm) and design, although the colouring alternates between black and red. The centre of the band has a row of linked squares, each filled with a cross, and a border of triangles with a row of single leaves on the outside. The central band is brown with red borders, the outer bands are red with brown borders.
Along both long sides is a stitched hem with a spaced cross stitch. The central band also has two single rows of cross stitches.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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