Textile fragment with linked rosettes and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked rosettes and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk; with two rolled hems 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
13.5 x 14.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 cm min. (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.
EA1993.216
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Catalogue text
Blue and red rosettes are embroidered in double running stitch outlines, arranged in straight rows. Between each row is a line of light- or dark-green triangular ?trees, embroidered in open cross stitch worked as a filling stitch. There are the remains of a single line of stitching as a border, as well as a line of spaced crosses.
There is a selvedge and a rolled hem along two sides.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. 177 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 177
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