Textile fragment with two parallel bands filled with chevrons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with two parallel bands filled with chevrons
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk; with a rolled hem in silk
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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 7.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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.
EA1984.564
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Catalogue text
Two parallel bands are filled with chevrons; the chevrons alternate between red and blue, and they have small trefoils at the finials. One band has a red border, the other one a blue one, with an additional single red border band. There is the beginning of additional embroidery, too fragmentary to read.
The two long sides of the fragment have a whipped, rolled hem sewn with silk thread.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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