Textile fragment with S-shapes, possibly from a square cover or kerchief
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with S-shapes, possibly from a square cover or kerchief
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown and blue silk; with a rolled hem in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28.5 x 26 cm (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.474
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Catalogue text
Eight narrow bands contain a continuous line of S-shapes, linked to make up a design of vines and trumpet-shaped leaves. Four of the bands are embroidered blue, the other four are brown.
The bands are 1 cm wide. Six of them are arranged in two groups of three each, parallel to one another and set at right angles between the remaining two bands. The fabric has a rolled hem on all four sides; it was used as a square cover or kerchief.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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