Textile fragment with quatrefoils and interlacing kufic script
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoils and interlacing kufic script
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Associated place
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Date
late 12th century - early 13th century
Ayyubid Period (1169 - 1260) -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown, blue, and purple silk, and undyed flax; additional piece of linen; joined with a flat 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
13 x 9.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (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.
EA1984.108
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Catalogue text
A field with a diamond pattern filled with quatrefoils and interlacing is followed by a line of drawn thread and a band of interlace kufic. The outlines of diamonds, quatrefoils, and scrolled interlacing are embroidered with flax thread, the background is filled with silk thread.
The embroidery is extremely fine. An additional fragment of plain tabby linen is sewn to the kufic band with a flat seam.
The uncalibrated radiocarbon date is 1036 AD +/- 35, but the calibrated date of 1030 to 1210 may place the textile into the post-Fatimid period, which is likely on stylistic grounds.In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Glossary of terms
kufic
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, vol. ii, vol. i p. 20, vol. i
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