Textile fragment with rhombuses and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rhombuses and diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with green and red silk, and dark-blue cotton; with a rolled hem in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11.5 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1.5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm min. (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.
EA1984.383
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Catalogue text
Two parallel bands with diamonds and rhombic shapes outlined in blue stem stitch. The rhombic shapes once had a red embroidery pattern which can no longer be identified, while the space in between was filled with green embroidery worked in slanted counted filling stitch worked in diagonal rows.
The bands are 1.5 cm wide and set apart 6.3 cm. There is a finely rolled hem along one side at right angles to the bands.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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