Textile fragment with S-shapes and diamond-shape borders
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with S-shapes and diamond-shape borders
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue flax and brown silk; with rolled hems 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
33 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 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.
EA1984.399
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Catalogue text
Four bands provide the borders to a rectangular cloth. The design of all four bands is made up of identical linked S-shapes and diamonds, but the colour changes. Two bands are embroidered with brown pattern darning running stitch with a fine border in blue stem stitch, while the other two reverse the colour.
There is a selvedge along one side, and rolled hems whipped with flax thread along the other three.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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