Sampler fragment with diamond-shapes and lozenges
Details
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Title
Sampler fragment with diamond-shapes and lozenges
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, embroidered with blue flax; remains of blue and white checked fabric, probably woven from silk and blue flax threads; with remains of stitching 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
24 x 18 cm (length x width)
11 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.1 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.
EA1984.503
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Catalogue text
Sampler fragment with three bands of cross stitch, and one band embroidered in patern darning running stitch, with diamonds and half-diamonds, lozenges and two stylized flowers. There is also the beginning of two designs worked in double running stitch, some of it in two shades of blue.
In one corner of the textile are the small remains of a blue and white checkered fabric, probably woven from flax (blue) and silk (natural). There are also traces of sewing stitches.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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