Textile fragment with alternating cartouches and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with alternating cartouches and squares
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue silk; pulled thread openwork in white silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.5 x 15 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 22 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.
EA1984.427.b
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Catalogue text
A band with alternating cartouche and square, the cartouche containing an inscription, the square a star-shaped medallion with a four-armed spiral.
The main embroidery is double running stitch in blue; the background of the square and spiral is filled with pulled work with white wrapping stitch worked in horizontal rows. This fragment has a selvedge at right angles to the 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. iii, vol. i
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