Textile fragment with linked quatrefoils, possibly from a sash or turban cloth
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked quatrefoils, possibly from a sash or turban cloth
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with pale-blue silk, and metal thread, possibly silver, wrapped around a silk core; with three rolled hems in silk
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 17.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 20 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.
EA1984.405
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Catalogue text
A large rectangle has a continuous overall design of linked quatrefoils, giving the visual impression of overlapping circles. The embroidery outlines the shapes.
There are finely rolled hems along three sides of the textile. These are whipped with silk; as a border decoration a single thread of the embroidery fibre is twisted around a metal thread (silver?) with a silk core, and is inserted along the hem line. The textile probably was used as a sash or turban cloth.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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