Textile fragment with quatrefoils linked by small squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoils linked by small squares
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with pink and blue silk; with a rolled hem in yellow silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 13 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 7.3 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.545
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Catalogue text
A band has a continuous field of pink quatrefoils which are linked by diagonal lines and small squares. The band has a border of a single line of blue cross stitch.
The width of the band is 7.3 cm. Along one side is a rolled hem whipped with yellow 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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