Textile fragment with palmettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with palmettes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue thread, possibly silk; with remains of seams in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20.5 x 20.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 25 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1.8 cm (width)
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.
EA1984.515
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Catalogue text
The virtually square fragment has an embroidered border on three sides, with continuously linked palmettes.
The border is 1.8 cm wide. The embroidery is badly deteriorated, but the prick marks clearly reveal the design. There are traces of seams along three sides, parallel to the embroidery. It is not possible to definitely determine the stitch, but it is most likely that the stitches remaining were done to hold an ornamental thread or cord in place, i.e. are remains of couching.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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