Textile fragment with tab shape, plant, and vine
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Title
Textile fragment with tab shape, plant, and vine
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue and pink silk
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 13 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1984.94
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Catalogue text
A large plant with a trefoil finial is set into a tab shape with a border containing a continuous vine. The plant itself has remains of pink embroidery stitching, the background is dark blue.
The slanted counted filling stitches were worked in diagonal rows.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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