Textile fragment with naskhi inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with naskhi inscription
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1984.50
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Catalogue text
A naskhi inscription in reserve against a red embroidered background. The embroidery takes the shape of a large chevron zigzag; very small remains of blue silk indicate that a narrow blue band once ran alongside the wide red one.
The inscription reads (al-ma)jd wa l-dan(?) wa l-r(ahma) which can only partly be translated as 'pomp and [?] and rest'. Threads are couched down over surface satin filling stitches.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. ii, vol. i
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