Textile fragment with interlacing diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with yellow silk; with remains of a rolled 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
13 x 10 cm max. (warp x weft)
24 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 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.
EA1984.187
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Catalogue text
Two parallel bands with interlacing diamonds and hook motifs; the embroidery outlines the patterning. The bands have fine borders of crenellations. One band is slightly wider than the other.
Remains of a rolled hem at right angles to the bands, possibly once the selvedge.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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