Textile fragment with stylized floral shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized floral shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk; with a rolled hem, possibly in mercerized cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 25 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.01 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.
EA1993.308
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Catalogue text
Rows of stylized flowers arranged in groups of three, each with two leaves and a hooked stem. The same motif is repeated in a deep border edged with lines of small triangles.
There is a rolled hem along one 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. 269 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 269
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