Textile fragment with elaborate cross
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with elaborate cross
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of linen, embroidered with blue, brown, and remains of undyed silk; joined with 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
18 x 15 cm (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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.
EA1993.130
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Catalogue text
A large tab with a blue frame and a central floral design, also blue with brown outlines worked in stem stitch. There are a few remains of yellow in the main field of the tab. Apart from the outlines all embroidery is worked in slanted counted filling stitch.
An additional band has been sewn to the top of the tab.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, p. 91 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 91
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