Textile fragment with linked and interlaced diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked and interlaced diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue cotton and pink, yellow, and dark-blue silk; with a hem 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
12 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 cm min. (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.
EA1984.210
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Catalogue text
Two blue bands at right angles to each other, with a design of linked, interlaced diamonds. In addition there are small clusters of diamonds embroidered blue, dark blue, yellow, and pink.
There is a selvedge and at right angles to it a stitched hem. The blue bands and the small blue diamonds are embroidered with cotton thread, the pink, yellow, and dark blue diamonds are of silk thread.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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