Textile fragment with lattice of diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lattice of diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk; with two rolled hems 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
10.5 x 28.5 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.01 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.
EA1993.135
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Catalogue text
A broad band embroidered from side to side with a diamond lattice design, embroidered in slanted filling stitch with double running outlines. The outlines are embroidered with 2-ply silk thread, the filling is floss.
One narrow end of the band has a selvedge. Both long sides have a rolled hem. "13 - 15" written on the original card by Percy Newberry.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, p. 96 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 96
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