Textile fragment with stylized birds
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized birds
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-brown silk; silk backing; with a run-and-fell seam in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24.8 x 17.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 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.
EA1993.43
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Catalogue text
Stylized bird motifs are arranged in staggered rows; in each successive row they face right and left alternately.
The fragment is mounted on silk. 'Darning' was written on the original card by Percy Newberry. There is a run-and fell seam.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. 4 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 4
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