Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes, hexagonal cartouches, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes, hexagonal cartouches, and quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue and pink silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
44.5 x 11 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1.2 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1984.320
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Catalogue text
Four narrow bands filled with blue diamonds alternating with hexagonal cartouches with blue borders and containing light pink quatrefoils.
The textile has a selvedge, and two of the bands run parallel to the long selvedge side. The other two bands are set at right angles at either end. The width of the bands is 1.2 cm.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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