Textile fragment with octagons and squares

Textile fragment with octagons and squares (EA1993.211, front )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Textile fragment with octagons and squares
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Near East (place of creation)
Date

10th - 15th century AD
Material and technique

linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
Material index

linen;

silk
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered
Object type

textile
Dimensions

25.5 x 20 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1993.211

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Catalogue text

Octagons filled with geometric pattern of small squares are arranged in staggered rows; a broken double line forms a border on two sides.

There is a selvedge.

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. 172 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 172

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