Textile fragment with stars and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stars and diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue, dark-blue, and yellow silk; remains of linen pouch on the reverse; with remains of repair stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 22 cm max. (warp x weft)
24 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
pouch 24 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
pouch 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.
EA1984.518
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Catalogue text
A wide design field with stars outlined in fine dark-blue double running stitch, each filled with a bright blue eight-pointed star and small yellow diamonds set between the points; these stars and diamonds are embroidered in slanted counted filling stitch worked in straight rows.
There is a coarsely done mending stitch as well as the remains of a pouch sewn onto the back. This is of undyed, plain linen, with a threadcount of 24/24, z/z spin, and thread diameter of 0.5 mm.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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