Textile fragment with stylized trees and birds
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees and birds
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with light-blue and 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
14.5 x 11.7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1993.142
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Catalogue text
Remains of a border with two large and two small stylized trees; one is embroidered in light-blue and has a pair of birds on its branches. The two large trees have triangular bases. At right angles to the line of trees there is part of a geometric narrow border with eight-pointed stars and diagonals.
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. 103 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 103
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