Sampler fragment with nine parallel bands
Details
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Title
Sampler fragment with nine parallel bands
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue, red, and brown silk, and light-blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32.5 x 18 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.04 cm min. (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.
EA1984.486
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Catalogue text
A sampler fragment filled completely with nine parallel bands containing large and small diamonds, S-shapes, and crosses.
The embroidery colour changes within the bands, from light to dark blue, or from blue to red and brown.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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