Textile fragment with six blazons

Title

Textile fragment with six blazons
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Near East (place of creation)
Date

10th - 15th century AD
Material and technique

linen, embroidered with blue and brown silk; with stitching in flax
Material index

linen;

silk;

flax
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered;

stitched
Object type

textile
Dimensions

24 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1984.606

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Catalogue text

Four blue and two brown blazons are filled with a crescent shape that contains an inscription. At top and bottom of the blazon is a small trefoil.

In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

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