Roundel textile fragment with vine border
Details
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Title
Roundel textile fragment with vine border
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red silk; drawn-thread work, embroidered with turquoise and yellow silk; with stitching in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.81
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Catalogue text
A roundel with a red, continuous vine border; the centre of the roundel is filled with drawn thread work, of which only a few threads survive. These are turquoise and yellow.
Laid threads are couched down over surface satin filling stitches.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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