Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes, hooks, squares, and crosses
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Title
Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes, hooks, squares, and crosses
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and brown silk, and remains of silver thread wrapped around a metal core; additional red silk fragment; joined with a flat seam in flax; with remains of stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery 6.8 cm (width)
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.
EA1984.239
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Catalogue text
Two bands embroidered blue, each with a single row of linked diamonds and hook motifs; between the bands there is a continuous design field with linked squares containing a cross, embroidered in blue. The design of the brown embroidery and the remains of metal thread can no longer be identified.
The embroidery field is complete in its width (6.8 cm), and there are remains of stitching along three sides. A fragment of red silk has been sewn onto one narrow end with a flat seam. There are remains of the core of metal thread, some of it still with traces of silver wrapped around.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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