Textile fragment with band of inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with band of inscription
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
silk, dyed dark-brown and blue, and tapestry woven with white thread, probably flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 4 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 72 / 28 threads/cm (thread count)
0.02 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.
EA1988.22
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Catalogue text
An inscription in white tapestry weave, probably flax fibre, is set into a band against a dark brown and blue background of curving tendrils.
In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Further reading
Ellis, Marianne, Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Greenville: Curious Works Press, 2001), p. 21
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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