Textile fragment with circles containing lozenges
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circles containing lozenges
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue and yellow silk; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 31 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.608.a
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Catalogue text
Diagonally arranged blue and yellow circles, each filled with four lozenges with inscriptions, as well as a small circle at the centre. There also ia a narrow border with an embroidered blue inscription.
The fragment has a selvedge.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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