Textile fragment with zigzags and linked squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with zigzags and linked squares
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23.5 x 9.5 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (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.
EA1984.303
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Catalogue text
Three parallel narrow bands with zigzag pattern, plus three single rows of very small, linked squares and a single line of running stitch.
The bands are mostly embroidered in running stitch. The outline stitch is restricted to the borders. The bands are at right angles to the selvedge.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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