Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and floral patterns
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and floral patterns
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and undyed silk
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1993.108
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Catalogue text
The fragment is entirely filled with two deep bands of diamond and floral patterns, separated by narrow borders with a continuous tendril and leaf design. All outlines are worked in yellow (undyed) split stitch, the background is filled entirely with counted slanted filling stitch worked primarily in diagonal rows.
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, p. 69 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 69
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