Textile fragment with chevrons and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with chevrons and diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, 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
5 x 12 cm (warp x weft)
23 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.02 cm min. (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.
EA1984.541
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Catalogue text
A band is divided into rectangles with alternating designs; one is filled with very small, linked chevrons, the other with a grid of diamonds. Most of the embroidery is worked in a stepped version of double running stitch.
The band is at right angles to 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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