Textile fragment with stripes and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stripes and diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown silk; partial linen backing; with remains of stitching 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
76 x 3 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1984.336
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Catalogue text
A narrow band embroidered with diagonal stripes alternating with single small diamonds.
The band is partly sewn against a linen fabric. There is a selvedge parallel to the band, folded and with traces of stitches.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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