Textile fragment with chevrons, triangles, and geometric shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with chevrons, triangles, and geometric shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, with remains of embroidery; with a run-and-fell seam, and remains of a rolled 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
34 x 23.2 cm (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1993.65
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Catalogue text
A central band of chevrons with lines of S and inverted S shapes on both sides, and borders of triangle and geometric floret pattern.
Most of the embroidery thread has perished, although the design is still clearly visible. There is a run-and-fell seam at right angles to the band, and remains of a rolled hem.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. 26 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 26
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