Textile fragment with tiraz band
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tiraz band
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 11th century (AD 901 - 1100) -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1988.37
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Catalogue text
A tiraz fragment with crude red stitching, reading "Bismillah al-rahman al-rahim" (in the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful), which is repeated four and a half times.
The original accession card dates the textile to the 10th/11th century, with origin in Egypt.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. iii, vol. i
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