Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, triangles, and floral shapes

Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, triangles, and floral shapes (EA1984.241, front )

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Details

Title

Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, triangles, and floral shapes
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Near East (place of creation)
Date

10th - 15th century AD
Material and technique

linen, embroidered with pink, dark-blue, and brown silk
Material index

linen;

silk
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered
Object type

textile
Dimensions

10.5 x 38.5 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm min. (thread diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1984.241

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Catalogue text

Parallel bands are filled with of dark blue, brown or pink diamonds, with borders of half diamonds in the complementary colour on either side. The bands have borders of triangles and small floral motifs.

The colour of the dark embroidery shifts between blue and brown.

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

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