Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes and S-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes and S-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-blue, red, and yellow silk; with a hem in blue flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
8.5 x 4.5 cm (length x width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count) -
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.
EA1984.348
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Catalogue text
Fragment of two bands, one with a diamond linked to a large S-shape, both with a border of small hooks, the other with an ?interlace knot. There also is a border of fine sawtooth lines.
Along the border is a hem sewn with blue flax thread, as well as the remains of blanket stitching, as in EA1984.344.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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