Textile fragment with cartouches and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with cartouches and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with turquoise, yellow, and brown silk; pulled-thread openwork
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
49.5 x 19.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
28 / 33 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.01 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.
EA1984.424
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Catalogue text
Three narrow bands contain cartouches and rosettes. Each cartouche holds a small medallion flanked by two flowers, embroidered in yellow against a background of either brown or turquoise. The small rosettes are six-petalled and embroidered with satin stitch in turquoise outlines. Split or stem stitch are used for both outlines and as filling stitch. Between the cartouches are medallions filled with pulled work worked with three-sided stitch.
The bands are parallel to the selvedge. They are 1 cm wide.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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