Textile fragment with grid of squares linked by diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of squares linked by diamond-shapes
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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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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 22 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 9.3 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 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.
EA1984.546
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Catalogue text
A wide band filled with a grid of squares linked by small diamonds. Each square contains a Maltese cross with trefoil ends. The band has a border of interlace S-shapes.
There is a selvedge at right angles to the band. The width of the embroidered band is 9.3 cm.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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