Textile fragment with vine or arabesque
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vine or arabesque
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of linen, embroidered with red and remains of blue silk; joined with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.57
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Catalogue text
A band of continuous vine or arabesque, filled in with red couching stitch; threads are couched down over surface satin filling stitches. There are the remains of a blue outline, possibly worked in stem stitch.
Two fragments of the same design have been sewn together border to border. The sewing is quite crude and was possibly done recently as a repair. The design, stitch technique and colour, as well as ground fabric analysis are very similar to EA1984.56; both fragments were probably part of the same fabric.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. ii, vol. i
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