Textile fragment with grid
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid
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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 a hem and rolled hems in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1984.450
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Catalogue text
Linked red squares are arranged as a continuous grid design; they are embroidered with slanted, counted filling stitch worked in diagonal rows. Fine brown lines between the squares define four tiny crosses and a small circle in the centre. They are embroidered in double running stitch.
There are two rolled hems on two sides of the textile, and a third hem sewn with ?backstitch.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. iii, vol. i
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