Textile fragment with stylized birds and trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized birds and trees
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk; with a rolled hem in silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 15 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1993.181
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Catalogue text
A border with stylized trees and groups of three perching birds and a narrow band of linked rosettes and medallions. There are the remains of a separate, parallel line of small, linked diamonds.
At right angles to the band is a finely sewn rolled hem.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. 142 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 142
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