Textile fragment with stylized plants and chevrons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants and chevrons
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk and with tel kirma (knots) in metal thread; with two rolled hems 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
22 x 15 cm max. (warp x weft)
23 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1993.303
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Catalogue text
Repeating design of tall stylized plants and chevron border line at one edge.
There are two hems, both rolled and whipped, as well as a selvedge. Tel kirma (knots) in metal thread. The fragment was part of the same textile as EA1993.302.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. 264 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 264
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