textile
Details
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Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1984.267
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Catalogue text
A self-contained small knotted interlace has four trefoils attached, with leaves and tendrils added on either side. The design is embroidered in red lines with yellow outlines.
The embroidery is stitched on a double layer of fabric, the upper one blue silk woven in ?warp-faced tabby, the lower one (reverse) flax.
The fragment has been radiocarbon dated to 1390 +/- 75.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
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