Textile fragment with stylized birds

Textile fragment with stylized birds (EA1993.195, front )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Textile fragment with stylized birds
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 red silk; with repair stitching
Material index

linen;

silk
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered;

stitched;

repaired
Object type

textile
Dimensions

43 x 47 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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.

EA1993.195

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Catalogue text

Stylized birds, all facing left, are arranged in staggered rows.

There is a selvedge and some mending stitches.

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. 156 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 156

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