Textile fragment with interlacing knot
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing knot
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue, red, and brown silk; drawstring; with a 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
10 x 9.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1984.595
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Catalogue text
A roundel with an interlace knot embroidered in blue outline, and four small red trefoils set between the knot's four points. There are remains of brown embroidery along the rim, too deteriorated to tell the design.
The roundel has a hem around its edge, with a drawstring inside.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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