Textile fragment from a belt or scarf with trefoils and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment from a belt or scarf with trefoils and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk; woven with five silk warp threads at selvedge; with a rolled hem in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
9.5 x 13 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 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.
EA1993.150
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Catalogue text
A band of trefoils and leaves on a chevron stem and borders with a small leaf pattern. The embroidery provides the background.
There is a finely rolled hem along one side, and the remains of a selvedge along the other. The selvedge includes five silk warp threads. The design and technical detail is identical to EA1993.151; both were part of a belt or scarf.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. 111 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 111
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