Textile fragment with diamond-shaped medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shaped medallions
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown silk; with a seam 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
38.5 x 20.1 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (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.
EA1993.56
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Catalogue text
Triple diamond shaped medallions are arranged horizontally and vertically in rows: there is a narrow border of small triangles.
There is a hem along one long side of the fragment.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. 17 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 17
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