Textile fragment with two trefoils and rows of circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with two trefoils and rows of circles
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk and silver thread
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11 x 7.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1984.581
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Catalogue text
A small rectangle is filled completely with couched designs, much of it in silver thread. Outlines are embroidered in split stitch. It is difficult to make out the pattern, but there are two trefoils against a yellow ground, as well as two rows of circles. On one side of the rectangle are two separate circles, each filled with a single trefoil.
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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