Textile fragment with two parallel bands
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Title
Textile fragment with two parallel bands
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue and yellow silk; needle-woven drawn-thread and pulled-thread openwork; with rolled hems in silk and flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
central embroidery band 1.5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 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.
EA1984.438
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Catalogue text
Two parallel bands, one with an S-shape embroidered in yellow pulled work in diagonal rows, with dark blue double running stitch outlines and stylized plants in fine darning stitch. Between these two motifs are remains of very fine drawn-thread work with needle-woven bars. The design of the second band is largely disintegrated.
The first band is 1.5 cm wide; the two bands are set at right angles between the textile's two edges, both with a rolled hem. One hem is whipped with silk, the other with a 2-ply flax thread.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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