Textile fragment with large hexagonal diamond-shape
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with large hexagonal diamond-shape
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk; with remains of stitching 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
23 x 13 cm max. (warp x weft)
23 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (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.
EA1984.602
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Catalogue text
A large hexagonal diamond with a blue border is filled with a four-petalled flower outlined in blue against a purple background, all worked in slanted filling stitch. The design has a fine white outline, embroidered in stem stitch. In addition there are three stepped triangles in one corner of the fragment, embroidered in close counted herringbone stitch.
The fabric has a selvedge, and a single thread of sewing fibre.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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