Textile fragment with three parallel bands containing stars and hexagons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with three parallel bands containing stars and hexagons
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and yellow silk; pulled-thread openwork; with a flat run-and-fell seam and a rolled hem in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 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.
EA1984.548
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Catalogue text
Three narrow parallel bands contain a star alternating with a hexagon with geometric shapes; between two of them is a single chevron made up from S-shapes and a large rhombic shape filled with a cluster of small diamonds. All designs are defined by very fine blue darning stitches worked over a single thread; in addition there are remains of pulled work done in yellow (undyed) wrapping stitch worked in diagonal rows.
Two of the narrow bands are very deteriorated. A flat run-and-fell seam divides the fragment, and there is a rolled hem along two sides.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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