Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, inverted hooks, and arrowheads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, inverted hooks, and arrowheads
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue cotton
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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 7.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1984.166
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Catalogue text
A complex diamond pattern with inverted hook motifs and small arrow heads, also with hooks. The design may have developed out of a stylized tree pattern flanked by birds.
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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