Textile fragment with band of hexagons and linked diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with band of hexagons and linked diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
wide embroidery band 1.2 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1984.318
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Catalogue text
A narrow band of red embroidery, with a row of red hexagons filled with a single line of blue embroidery and linked to each other by small diamonds. The band has a fine border along one side with inverted arrows. At right angles to the band is a row of red embroidered small, linked diamonds.
The width of the wider band is 1.2 cm. Along one side of the fragment there is evidence of a former seam parallel to the band.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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