Textile fragment with steps, florets, and chevrons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with steps, florets, and chevrons
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red, blue, and brown silk; with two rolled hems and remains of a third 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
19 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 19 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.
EA1993.197
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Catalogue text
Diagonal brown lines of steps and geometric red and blue florets are set into a central band; geometric blue florets form a chevron pattern on two smaller bands.
Rolled hems are sewn down both long sides, and there are the remains of a third hem along one short side.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. 158 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 158
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