Textile fragment with bands of dots and diagonal lines
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of dots and diagonal lines
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with green silk; with a rolled hem in silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 10.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 25 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1.3 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.02 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.
EA1984.385
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Catalogue text
Three narrow bands, each with a row of half-diamonds.
The bands are 1.3 cm wide. Three sides of the fragment have a rolled and whipped hem, sewn with yellow (undyed) silk.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. iii, vol. i
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