Textile fragment from a garment with stylized birds, trees, and pseudo-kufic inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment from a garment with stylized birds, trees, and pseudo-kufic inscription
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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 hem and run-and-fell seam 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
26.5 x 9.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
27 / 30 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
EA1993.180
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Catalogue text
A border of three stylized trees with small birds and a continuous line of pseudo kufic inscription.
A carefully sewn hem and a run-and-fell seam at right angles to it indicate that the fragment was the base of a garment for example a tunic. The inscription may possibly read 'blessing'.In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Glossary of terms
kufic
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, p. 141 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 141
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