Cap with diamond-shapes and triangles
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Details
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Title
Cap with diamond-shapes and triangles
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Associated place
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Date
1450 - 1550 -
Material and technique
silk, embroidered with coloured silk; linen lining; band and crown joined with a run-and-fell seam 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
12 cm (height)
18 cm (diameter)
ground fabric (silk), along length/width 42 / 42 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (linen), along length/width 21 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (silk) 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
ground fabric (linen) 0.05 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 1 | Exploring the Past -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1984.126
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Catalogue text
A cap is covered with square diamonds and triangles; the diamonds are each filled with nine buttonhole-embroidered squares, while the triangles are embroidered in green or blue, the larger ones around the main band also containing a trefoil.
The cap has a linen lining and a silk outer surface, which is completely filled with embroidery. Band and crown are sewn separately, and are joined with a run-and-fell seam. A label on the rim reads '31. Assiut 1925';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. ii, vol. i p. 15 n. 2, vol. i
