Textile fragment with stylized flowers, leaves, and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized flowers, leaves, and squares
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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 a rolled hem in silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1993.214
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Catalogue text
Band of red stylized flowers and blue leaves, filled with small squares; there is a narrow border with a geometric vine along both sides of the band.
Parallel to the border is a rolled hem.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. 175 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 175
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