Textile fragment with step pattern and chevrons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with step pattern and chevrons
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with white flax; with a rolled hem and a seam in silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
55 x 6.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 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.
EA1993.281
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Catalogue text
Band with continuous step pattern in three horizontal rows with chevron borders.
There is a finely rolled hem at one short side, and a whipped seam along the embroidery band.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, p. 242 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 242
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