Textile fragment with bands of interlacing diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of interlacing diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with pink 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
19 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 31 / 32 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 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.
EA1984.339
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Catalogue text
Fragmentary remains of three brown bands with interlacing arranged as linked diamonds, as well as a row of linked, partly overlapping diamonds. One of the diamonds in this row is brown, the others are pink.
The fragment is in poor condition.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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