Textile fragment with diamond-shapes containing Maltese crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes containing Maltese crosses
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, woven with flax and silk warp at selvedge, and embroidered with turquoise and red silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.5 x 14 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 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.
EA1984.576
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Catalogue text
A turquoise band with diamonds containing a red Maltese cross, and red borders of chevrons.
The band is at right angles to the selvedge. The selvedge itself has flax as well as silk warp threads.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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