Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes and hooks
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes and hooks
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue and brown silk; with stitching 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
13.5 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 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.
EA1984.195
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Catalogue text
An overall pattern of linked diamonds of three different sizes. The two larger diamonds contain a grid pattern with further diamonds; all have a surround of hook-shapes. The embroidery defines the design.
A border embroidered in a single line of spaced cross stitch runs along one side. Almost all the embroidery is dark blue, but there are two single lines of 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. ii, vol. i
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