Textile fragment with seven parallel bands

Textile fragment with seven parallel bands (EA1984.510, front )

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Details

Title

Textile fragment with seven parallel bands
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 blue flax
Material index

linen;

flax
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered
Object type

textile
Dimensions

33 x 16.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 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
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1984.510

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Catalogue text

Seven parallel bands, closely set together; five and one half are embroidered with widely spaced running stitch and contain S-shapes, hatched crosses, diamonds and hooked crosses. One and one half band are filled with diamonds, S-shapes, and hexagons; these are embroidered in close pattern darning running stitch.

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. iii, vol. i

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