Textile fragment with three diamond-shapes and hooks
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with three diamond-shapes and hooks
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with pink and 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
11 x 10.8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 7.5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 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.
EA1984.470
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Catalogue text
A band with three ornate dark brown diamonds and hook motifs; the design is halfed to fill the space along the edge of the band, and is embroidered in pink. A small foliate border is dark brown.
The width of the band is 7.5 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. iii, vol. i
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