Textile fragment with floral spray
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with floral spray
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk; with remains of 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
21 x 25 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (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.
EA1993.311
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Catalogue text
Floral spray with six-petalled and five-petalled flowers, small leaves and tendrils and a hooked stem; a border line along the hem.
There is a selvedge along one side, and remains of a rolled hem along the other.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. 272 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 272
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