Textile fragment with octagon, rosette, and palmettes, possibly from a bag or pocket
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with octagon, rosette, and palmettes, possibly from a bag or pocket
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of silk, embroidered with coloured silk; linen lining; joined with stitching 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
23.5 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric (silk), along length/width 46 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (linen), along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (silk) 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
ground fabric (linen) 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1993.102
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Catalogue text
A blue octagon contains a six-petalled white rosette; it also has four trefoils and four palmettes arranged alternately around its edge. An attached band has a geometric pattern embroidered with running stitch in blue flax fibre.
The fragments may have been part of a bag or pocket. They are stitched together with a linen lining covered with silk embroidery.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, p. 63 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 63
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