Textile fragment with flowers, crosses, and interlacing diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers, crosses, and interlacing diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, possibly with traces of quilting, embroidered with dark-blue silk; 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
33 x 26 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 25 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1984.379
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Catalogue text
Two parallel bands with interlacing diamonds, each filled with an eight-petalled flower; adjacent to one band is a continuous design of small linked crosses arranged into a grid, with a single cross inside each compartment.
There is a hem sewn at right angles to the bands, as well as traces of ?quilting lines.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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