Textile fragment with X-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with X-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 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
33 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 0.7 cm (width)
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.
EA1984.257
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Catalogue text
Three parallel bands of blue embroidery, made up of paired X-shapes with a small gap between each pair. The embroidery defines the design shapes.
The bands are 0.7 cm wide, and they are 1.5 cm and 2 cm set apart respectively.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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