Textile fragment with eight-pointed stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with eight-pointed stars
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue and light-blue thread, possibly flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 17.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
26 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 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.
EA1984.415
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Catalogue text
A central field has eight-pointed stars outlined in blue, each with a small cross at the centre; the stars are spaced widely apart. The field has two border bands with diagonally placed compartments embroidered in stepped double running stitch; these are filled alternately with fine tendrils in dark blue, and with horizontal angular S-shapes or four-armed spirals outlined in dark blue against a background of light blue embroidery.
All dark blue embroidery is worked in double running stitch, while the light blue embroidery is done in very fine darning running stitch worked over one 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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