Textile fragment from a garment with linked diamond-shapes and double hearts
Details
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Title
Textile fragment from a garment with linked diamond-shapes and double hearts
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, dyed blue, and embroidered with red, green, and dark-brown silk and metal thread; with a run-and-fell seam 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
30.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 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.
EA1993.336
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Catalogue text
A band of linked diamonds with central double-heart motifs and borders of small linked diamonds; a truncated diamond-shaped motif composed of double diamonds and ?fishes. In addition there is a single stylized plant with a three-petalled flower.
The straight stitches are arranged in chevron shapes and geometric (Florentine) pattern. The fragment may be the shoulder band and beginning of the sleeve of a garment. A line of long-armed cross stitch in red covers a run-and-fell seam, and the curved neckline is whipped with red and yellow silk.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. 297 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 298, vol. iv p. 297
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