Textile fragment with trefoil, probably from a garment
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with trefoil, probably from a garment
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
possibly linen, with a seam in flax; embroidered with dark-blue 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 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1984.34
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Catalogue text
A large vertical trefoil and a horizontal half-trefoil are embroidered along a seam. The design is defined by two parallel outlines worked in stem stitch, filled with dark blue satin stitch embroidery fields alternating with unembroidered areas.
The seam is a false hem; it probably was part of the edge of a garment. The embroidery was done after the hem had been added.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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