Textile fragment with linked squares and swastikas
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked squares and swastikas
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with 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
15.5 x 5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 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.
EA1984.381
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of small, linked squares filled with a swastika has a border which creates a complex design of interlace.
For the continuous, grid-like pattern the brown embroidery provides the background to the swastika, while in the border it creates the pattern.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. iii, vol. i
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