Textile fragment with curved leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with curved leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and undyed silk; with stitching in blue flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1993.120
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Catalogue text
Curving tendrils with small leaves fill a wide band; there are the remains of a border with S-shapes. The design is worked in yellow split stitch outlines against a blue background done in slanted counted filling stitch.
The embroidery is badly deteriorated. Some blue flax thread has been stitched over part of the fragment, for an uncertain reason.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, p. 81 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 81
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