Textile fragment from the neck of a garment with hooks and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment from the neck of a garment with hooks and diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red, yellow, and brown silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
31 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 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.
EA1993.61
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Catalogue text
A neck opening is bordered by narrow bands of chevron and diamonds. A diamond shaped medallion is filled with small crosses. Large hooks are arranged in diagonal bands decorated with two diamonds filled with red and yellow split stitch. There are remains of red and yellow cross stitch along the neck opening, but otherwise all embroidery is brown.
Part of a garment with neck opening.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. 22 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 22
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