Textile fragment with tulips, leaves, and stems

Textile fragment with tulips, leaves, and stems (EA1993.270, front )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Textile fragment with tulips, leaves, and stems
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Near East (place of creation)
Date

10th - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, embroidered with red and blue silk
Material index

cotton;

silk
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered
Object type

textile
Dimensions

28 x 19 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.

EA1993.270

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Catalogue text

Tulip flowers and leaves on wavy vertical stems: the flower heads face right and left alternately.

The pattern darning stitch is very fine and moves over a single thread.

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. 231 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 231

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