Textile fragment with interlinking crosses
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Title
Textile fragment with interlinking crosses
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with light-brown, dark-brown, and red silk; additional fabric; joined with a run-and-fell seam in flax; with a rolled hem 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
40 x 15 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1984.615
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Catalogue text
A continuous overall pattern of small, linked crosses, with dots in the corners; the same design is repeated in a border band.
A rolled hem runs along one side parallel to the selvedge, and at right angles there is a run-and-fell seam with an additional piece of fabric.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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