Textile fragment with blazon
On display
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with blazon
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Associated place
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Date
late 13th century - early 14th century -
Material and technique
linen, dyed blue; leather appliqué covered with paper or felt, embroidered with yellow, blue, and brown silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11.5 x 7.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1984.363
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Catalogue text
A blazon is sewn onto a blue linen ground. The shield contains a white chalice, outlined in blue against a yellow ground. It is tripartite, with the upper and lower band in brown.
The embroidery fills the entire background of the circle. A white paper or felt backing is placed underneath the embroidery, and it is partly left exposed, as e.g. to shape the chalice. The blazon has a leather backing on the reverse.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
