Textile fragment with triangular peaks, trefoils, and hearts
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with triangular peaks, trefoils, and hearts
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and red silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28.5 x 5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1984.68
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Catalogue text
A band with blue outlines, one of which is straight, the other has triangular peaks, each with a trefoil finial. Small red heart shapes with red trefoils fill the triangles, and the same shapes of hearts and trefoil, but stitched in blue, are placed onto small blue cartouches which are set between the triangular peaks. There is the beginning of a further design, of small shapes alternatingly red and blue, set apart by a single red line.
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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