Textile fragment with circle and pseudo-inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circle and pseudo-inscription
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue, yellow, and brown silk; openwork in yellow silk; with a 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
10 x 8.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.2 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm min. (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.
EA1984.275
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Catalogue text
A band is completely filled with open work embroidered with three-sided stitches in yellow (natural) silk; along either side is a blue border worked in slanted counted filling stitch worked in diagonal rows. The band contains a blue circle with a blue, yellow and brown pseudo-inscription band at the centre. Stem stitch is used to define the outlines of the circle and borders.
Along one of the blue borders is a narrow hem.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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