Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes, triangles, and palmettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes, triangles, and palmettes
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with green and brown silk; with a rolled hem 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
19.5 x 13.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (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.
EA1984.237
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Catalogue text
A wide band of green embroidery, with a linked diamond design, and a brown border made up of triangles, each with a small palmette at the apex.
There is a rolled hem along the edge that is parallel to the selvedge, which shows that the textile panel was intended to be 13.5 cm wide.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. ii, vol. i
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