Textile fragment with linked squares and quatrefoil rosette
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked squares and quatrefoil rosette
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 7.5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
EA1984.540
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Catalogue text
A wide band is divided into rectangles; two of these are filled with two versions of linked squares, one with a single quatrefoil rosette, the other with a four-legged spiral. The two remaining rectangles have five diagonal lines, each with a single line of crosses. Along the border is a ?stylized inscription. Most of the embroidery is worked in stepped double running stitch.
The band is 7.5 cm wide.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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