Roundel textile fragment with scrolling stems, trefoils, leaves, and star
Details
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Title
Roundel textile fragment with scrolling stems, trefoils, leaves, and star
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
silk, dyed brown; cotton backing; both fabrics embroidered with yellow silk; with a hem in silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 30 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 1 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
ground fabric 2 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.
EA1993.233
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Catalogue text
A roundel with a central eight-pointed star and eight narrow bands emerging from it. The bands each contain a continuous vine tendril and leaves.
The roundel is sewn with a cotton backing and silk cover; the embroidery is stitched through both fabrics.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, p. 194 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 194
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