Textile fragment with hexagons containing an S-shape
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hexagons containing an S-shape
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with 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
15.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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.
EA1984.461
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of blue hexagons, each containing an S-shape, and brown diamonds with an arrow inside. The background was filled with brown lines which now have virtually disappeared.
Only faint traces of the brown embroidery remain. Several of the S-shapes are reversed.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
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