Textile fragment with band of hooks and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with band of hooks and diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-brown silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 16.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
26 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 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.
EA1984.145
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Catalogue text
A wide band filled with hook motifs and diamond patterns; along the two borders is a very narrow band with alternating ?palmette and diamond shapes.
The darning stitches of the wide band move parallel to the selvedge, while the stitches of the narrow border on either side of the band move at right angles to it. The border has smaller stitches than the wide band.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, vol. ii, vol. i
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