Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown, pink, and yellow silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.5 x 4 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1984.175
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Catalogue text
A narrow border band with linked diamond shapes is followed by a slightly wider band with hooked diamonds and stylized plants. The patterned embroidery is brown; in addition there are very fine pink lines between the bands and between border and edging of the fragment. The edge is embroidered with buttonhole stitch using pink and yellow silk thread.
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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