Textile fragment with interlacing diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and brown silk; flax tassels, twisted
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
including tassels 21 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1984.230
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Catalogue text
Two rectangles are set as bands parallel to each other, both filled with interlacing diamond shapes. One of the bands is embroidered in blue, the other is brown.
The brown embroidery stitches have almost disintegrated. At one end of the fragment are tassels; the measurement for the length given above include the tassels.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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