Textile fragment with tiraz band

Textile fragment with tiraz band (EA1988.33, front )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Textile fragment with tiraz band
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Iraq (place of creation)
Date

1st half of the 10th century AD
Material and technique

possibly cotton, embroidered with dark-blue silk
Material index

cotton;

silk
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered
Object type

textile
Dimensions

20 x 29 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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.

EA1988.33

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Catalogue text

A tiraz fragment which reads: "Bismillah [wa]'l-rahman al-rahim" (In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful).

The original accession card dates the fragment to the first half of the 10th century, Iraq.

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. iii, vol. i

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