Textile fragment with hexagonal medallions and pseudo-inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hexagonal medallions and pseudo-inscription
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with light-blue, dark-blue, and brown 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
24.5 x 6 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
EA1984.593
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of hexagonal medallions with floral finials; each medallion is filled with light blue diagonal filling stitch and a brown pseudo-inscription in satin stitch, and a border in dark blue double running stitch.
Along one side of the fragment is a finely rolled and whipped hem.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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