Textile fragment with linked hexagons, circles, and triangles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked hexagons, circles, and triangles
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue 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
17.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.07 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.04 cm min. (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.
EA1993.107
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Catalogue text
Remains of a band of linked hexagons embroidered with brown outlines in split stitch; each has a blue central circle, and triangles fill the space between the hexagons. The blue areas are all worked in slanted counted filling stitch, generally worked in diagonal rows.
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. 68 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 68
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