Sampler fragment with hooks and crosses
Details
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Title
Sampler fragment with hooks and crosses
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.5 x 10 cm (warp x weft)
22 / 21 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.
EA1984.500
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Catalogue text
A sampler fragment with two adjacent bands, filled with diagonal hook motifs and crosses. The embroidery of one band is yellow and two shades of green, the other is brown and pink.
The fragment has a selvedge.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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