Textile fragment with stylized floral sprays
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized floral sprays
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, embroidered with coloured silk; needle-woven openwork; with a rolled hem in silk
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
9.5 x 25.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
24 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 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.
EA1993.299
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Catalogue text
Border with two identical stylized floral sprays, each composed of a yellow flower head encircled by a light-blue curved leaf; there is a narrow band of needleweaving along two borders.
One border has a selvedge, the other has a finely 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. 260 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 260
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