Textile fragment with cartouches and hooks
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with cartouches and hooks
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-red silk; with a hem in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24.5 x 24 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 20 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.
EA1984.316
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Catalogue text
A corner band is filled with cartouches and small hook motifs. The band has fine zigzag borders; an additional band connects at right angles to one band.
The design is not complete, which suggests that it was embroidered as a sampler. There is a selvedge, and a whipped hem along one side at right angles to it. The embroidery defines the design.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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