Textile fragment with two bands of medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with two bands of medallions
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with yellow silk; pulled-thread openwork; with remains of a rolled hem
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 7 cm max. (warp x weft)
24 / 31 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 2.3 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 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.
EA1984.440
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Catalogue text
Two parallel bands of medallions linked by tendrils, framed by a chevron border. The medallions are embroidered with yellow pulled work with wrapping stitches in diagonal rows, the tendrils and chevrons are yellow split stitch.
The bands are 2.3 cm wide and are set at right angles to a selvedge along one side of the fragment, and a rolled hem along the other. The sewing thread of the hem has disintegrated.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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