Textile fragment with stylized flowers, diamond-shapes, and triangles
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized flowers, diamond-shapes, and triangles
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue flax; with a hem in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
16.5 x 13.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 11 / 9 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.1 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.05 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 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 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1993.352
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Catalogue text
A plant with a straight stem and pairs of stylized flowers, bands with diamonds and triangles, and a line of triangles supporting geometric flowers.
There is a hem along one side.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. 313 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 313
