Textile fragment with squares and pseudo-inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares and pseudo-inscription
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and brown silk; with remains of stitching 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
14.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1.4 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 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.
EA1984.260
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Catalogue text
A narrow band with remains of brown and red embroidery is parallel to a field of closely set bands with alternating red and brown squares, staggered in diagonal rows. Each square contains a symmetrical pseudo-inscription.
The single band is 1.4 cm wide. There are remains of stitching along one narrow 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, vol. ii, vol. i
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