Textile fragment with hooks, lions, and crosses, possibly from a tunic
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hooks, lions, and crosses, possibly from a tunic
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of linen, embroidered with brown silk; joined with a run-and-fell seam in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
42.5 x 14 cm (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 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.
EA1984.526
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Catalogue text
A complete band is divided into small registers filled with diagonal lines, hooks, and arrow motifs. The band is surrounded by a border with three finials at the narrow sides. The border is a continuous band of small squares, containing in alternation a small lion and a cross.
The textile is made up from two pieces, sewn together with a run-and-fell seam. The embroidery is stitched across the seam. The shape of the band suggests that it was part of a garment, possibly the shoulder front of a tunic.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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