Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes and squares
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk; remains of linen; with a run-and-fell seam 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
32 x 4 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1984.196
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Catalogue text
A band with a row of linked diamonds, each filled with four small squares. A narrow border runs along both edges of the band.
A run-and-fell seam runs along one side of the band, with small remains of plain linen remaining.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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