Textile fragment with diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk; with a rolled hem in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 7.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 4 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.03 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 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.
EA1984.293
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Catalogue text
A band with a single line of diamonds defined by blue embroidery, filled with a central square surrounded by a comb pattern. Between the diamonds are triangles filled with scrolls.
The band is 4 cm wide and fills the length of the fragment. At one end there is a rolled hem.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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