Textile fragment with trefoils, stylized buds, and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with trefoils, stylized buds, and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two layers of linen, embroidered with blue silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
31 x 22 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 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.
EA1993.227
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Catalogue text
Remains of a band of reciprocal trefoils, each containing a stylized bud and leaves at the borders; on one side there are remains of an arabesque pattern.
There is a double layer of ground fabric.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. 188 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 188
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