Textile fragment with grid of lozenges
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of lozenges
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (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.
EA1984.418
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of S-shapes arranged into a lozenge, linked to form an overall grid. Small spiralling rosettes with four petals are set between the lozenges. At one end of the fragment is a narrow border with diagonal lines.
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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