Textile fragment from a tunic with heart-shaped flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment from a tunic with heart-shaped flowers
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red silk; with a hem 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
32 x 15.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (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.
EA1984.220
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Catalogue text
The bottom of a tunic with a fine border band of heart-shaped leaves or flowers and two parallel lines; the same design is embroidered at right angles to the embroidery at the hem. In addition there is a line of individual hexagons flanked by two small diamonds and containing S-shapes. A design panel with an overall pattern has small, paired geometric Y-shapes arranged vertically and horizontally.
The design arrangement makes it certain that the fragment was once part of a tunic; see EA1984.353 for a complete example. The stitched hem was sewn after the embroidery was done.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, vol. ii, vol. i
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