Two textile fragments with paired birds and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Two textile fragments with paired birds and diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk; with a run-and-fell seam; silk mount
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
silk mount 30.9 x 24.9 cm (length x width)
largest 26.5 x 7.7 cm max. (warp x weft)
smallest 15.3 x 11.2 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 15 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.
EA1993.88
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Catalogue text
Vertical band of pairs of confronting red and blue birds alternating with diamonds; a narrow border band of S-shapes.
There is a run-and-fell seam. The [two] fragment[s] are sewn to a silk backing.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. 49 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 49
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