Sampler with floral shapes and triangles
Details
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Title
Sampler with floral shapes and triangles
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk and flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
24.5 x 23.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1993.318
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Catalogue text
Sampler with three partly-worked patterns; two have floral motifs with single flower heads, leaves and hooked stems and one is a band with alternating triangles.
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. 279 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 279
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