Textile fragment with trees, triangles, and plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with trees, triangles, and plants
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk; with remains of a rolled hem and remains of stitching in silk
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32.5 x 14.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1993.143
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Catalogue text
A border of red trees with triangular bases alternate with smaller blue plants; beneath is a broad band with a chevron and arrowhead pattern enclosed by lines of crosses.
There are the remains of a finely rolled hem with fragments of sewing silk.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. 104 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 104
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