Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes, possibly from the front of a garment
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes, possibly from the front of a garment
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk; with a hem 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
36 x 36 cm (warp x weft)
11 / 10 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm (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.
EA1993.339
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Catalogue text
Regular geometric pattern of linked diamonds, horizontal bands with large linked diamonds and vertical bands with chevrons; the bands have crenellated edges.
There is a hem and two selvedges.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. 300 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 300
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