Textile fragment with diamond-shaped medallions and palmettes

Textile fragment with diamond-shaped medallions and palmettes (EA1993.54, front )

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Details

Title

Textile fragment with diamond-shaped medallions and palmettes
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 blue silk; with a hem in flax
Material index

linen;

silk;

flax
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered;

stitched
Object type

textile
Dimensions

60 x 38 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (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.

EA1993.54

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Catalogue text

Truncated diamond-shaped medallions, containing geometric double palmettes, are arranged in staggered rows: there is a border of small triangles.

There is a hem along one side close to the border of triangles.

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. 15 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 15

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