Textile fragment with lobed medallions, plants, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lobed medallions, plants, and flowers
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and orange-brown silk; with remains of stitching in flax and blue cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 18 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (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.
EA1993.169
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Catalogue text
Lobed medallions are arranged in staggered rows; each one contains a plant with flowers. There is a border of trefoils on one side.
There are the remains of coarse blue cotton running 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, p. 130 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 130
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