Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and S-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and S-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk; possibly with remains of 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
14.5 x 10.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 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.
EA1984.296
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Catalogue text
Two parallel rectangles are filled with diamonds and s-shapes, as in fragment EA1984.294. Both rectangles have small triangular borders along their longer sides, again as in EA1984.294.
The fragment may have a selvedge on either long side, possibly with remains of flax sewing fibre. It is heavily stained yellow. In all respects of design and technical construction the fragment is identical to EA1984.294, and it is likely that both were part of the same textile.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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