Textile fragment with interlacing spirals and hearts
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing spirals and hearts
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of linen, embroidered with green and yellow silk; joined with a run-and-fell seam in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
40 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (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.
EA1984.584
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Catalogue text
Interlocked green and white spirals and heart-shapes create a continuous band design, which is repeated as a mirror image.
A run-and-fell seam along the full length of the fabric holds together two equal widths of fabric.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
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