Textile fragment with vines and leaves, probably from a garment or trousers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vines and leaves, probably from a garment or trousers
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and light-green silk; with a hem and flat seam in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
11 x 18 cm max. (warp x weft)
along length/width 26 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 18 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (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.
EA1984.382
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Catalogue text
Two bands filled with embroidered vines and leaves are set at diagonals to a border band; additional flowers and vines fill the space between.
The embroidery defines the design. There is a hem along the border band, as well as a flat seam at right angles to the hem, one side of which has a selvedge. The hem suggests that the fragment was either from the neckline of a garment, or the bottom of trousers.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. iii, vol. i
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