Textile fragment with band of interlacing hexagons and diamond-shapes

Details

• Title

  Textile fragment with band of interlacing hexagons and diamond-shapes

• Associated place

  Africa › Egypt (find spot)

  Africa › Egypt › Cairo › Cairo › Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

  Africa › Egypt (place of creation)

• Date

  10th - 15th century AD

• Material and technique

  coloured silk and gilded thread, woven with supplementary weft; hessian backing; joined with stitching

• Material index

  organic › animal › animal product › silk;

  processed material › metal › gold;

  processed material › textile › hessian

• Technique index

  woven › supplementary weft woven;

  dyed;

  covered › metallized › gilded;

  needleworked › stitched

• Object type

  textile

• Dimensions

  ground fabric 18 x 5 cm max. (length x width)
  right fragment 8.2 x 2.5 cm max. (length x width)
  left fragment 7.4 x 2.4 cm max. (length x width)
  along length/width 36 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
  ground fabric .03 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.

  EA1988.72

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