Textile fragment with three bands with hexagonal cartouches
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with three bands with hexagonal cartouches
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with yellow and blue silk; pulled-thread openwork, and drawn-thread openwork in yellow silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 18 cm (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1.5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1984.475
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Catalogue text
Three narrow bands with hexagonal cartouches filled either with a blue eight-pointed star worked in fine darning stitch, two S-shapes embroidered in yellow satin stitch, or drawn-thread work with overcast and looping stitch, also done in yellow silk.
Each band is 1.5 cm wide.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. iii, vol. i
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