Textile fragment with stripes and palmettes, probably a jar cover
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stripes and palmettes, probably a jar cover
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen and blue fabric, possibly cotton, embroidered with red silk; with seams in flax; drawstring
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric (linen), along length/width 18 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (blue), along length/width 26 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (linen) 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
ground fabric (blue) 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
EA1993.91
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Catalogue text
A circle is divided into two blue quarters of finely woven linen, and two quarters undyed linen embroidered with staggered rows of cruciform palmettes.
There is a draw string all around the edge of the roundel; it probably was used as a jar cover.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. 52 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 52
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