Textile fragment with interlacing knots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing knots
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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
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 31 / 29 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 6 cm (width)
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.
EA1984.524
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Catalogue text
A band is filled with a continuous design of interlacing knots, seven rows wide, and with borders of small S-shapes. All designs are embroidered in stepped double running stitch.
The band is 6 cm wide. The embroidery is exceptionally fine.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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