Textile fragment with stylized plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of linen, embroidered and joined with coloured silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
81 x 15 cm (warp x weft)
16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1993.267
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Catalogue text
Line of repeating stylized plant motifs.
The embroidery links two strips of cloth along the selvedge.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. 228 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 228
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