Textile fragment with three bands of diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with three bands of diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and brown silk; with repair stitching and remains of a hem, possibly 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
23.5 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 2 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1984.407
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Catalogue text
Three bands of blue diamonds, each containing a small cross in brown outline, and separated by a brown circle and two half-diamonds.
The outlines are embroidered in double running stitch, the blue diamonds are embroidered in slanted counted filling stitch worked on the diagonal. The bands are 2 cm wide and placed 4.5 cm apart. They are set at right angles to a selvedge and the remains of a hem. There also are some mending stitches.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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