Textile fragment with bands of vines and flowers

Textile fragment with bands of vines and flowers (EA1984.56, front )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Textile fragment with bands of vines and flowers
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Near East (place of creation)
Date

10th - 15th century AD
Material and technique

linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
Material index

linen;

silk
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered
Object type

textile
Dimensions

15.5 x 15.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1984.56

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Catalogue text

Five bands, each with a continuous vine design; the central one is wide and includes trefoil flowers.

The vine is filled in with red couching stitches; threads are couched down over surface satin filling stitches. There are remains of fine blue outlines, possibly worked in stem stitch.

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, vol. ii, vol. i

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