Textile fragment with three medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with three medallions
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of linen, embroidered with blue thread, possibly cotton; joined with an open seam 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
23.6 x 17.2 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (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.
EA1993.72
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Catalogue text
There are three medallions, each slightly different in shape but all with the same check pattern.
An open seam joins two pieces together.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. 33 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 33
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