Sampler with stylized plants and linked diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Sampler with stylized plants and linked diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
six pieces of linen, embroidered with red and blue flax and silk; joined with stitching in mercerized cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
114 x 97.5 cm (warp x weft)
12 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm min. (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.
EA1993.344
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Catalogue text
Sampler with bands of stylized floral and plant motifs, broad bands with geometric patterns, linked diamond patterns including one with V-shape and pendant, and another uncut slit neck opening with a detached diamond-shaped medallion alongside.
Six pieces of fabric are stitched together to form a rectangle. The old accession number in the Department of Antiquities was 1956.894.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. 305 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 305
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