Textile fragment with linked pinwheels
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked pinwheels
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk; with rolled hems in silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 9 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
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.
EA1984.601
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Catalogue text
A wide band with linked pinwheels, emboidered in red satin stitch, and a single border line in green, which is worked in stem stitch.
The fabric has a very loose weave. At the two narrow ends there are finely rolled and whipped hems.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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