Textile fragment with trefoil scroll
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with trefoil scroll
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
leather, with traces of gilding, and leather appliqué; joined with stitching in blue flax; paper backing
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
8.5 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 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.
EA1984.359
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Catalogue text
Leather strips are cut out into a trefoil scroll and are sewn onto a gilded ground.
Most of the appliqué leather strips have disappeared, although the design can still be seen through the remaining stitching. Where the appliqué remains it is attached with flax 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. iii, vol. i
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