Textile fragment with hooks or leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hooks or leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown silk; linen backing; joined with stitching in blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 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.
EA1984.182
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Catalogue text
A narrow band with a design that can be read either as a row of small brown hooks, or a stylized vine with leaves, against a brown background. Along one side of the band is a border of stylized palmettes.
A few stitches of blue silk connect the embroidered band with a backing fabric, also of linen.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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