Textile fragment with peonies, leaves, and squares
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Title
Textile fragment with peonies, leaves, and squares
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red, dark-blue, and yellow silk; with a rolled hem in flax; remains of tabs with needlelace on cotton threads
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (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.
EA1993.139
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Catalogue text
Flowers on stems with leaves with a scrolling stem border beneath, worked in dark-blue chain stitch outlines with red background filled with slanted counted stitch. There also are the remains of two tabs worked in needlelace, with a design of yellow squares divided into triangles.
The border of the cotton fabric has a rolled hem. The needlelace is worked on a framework of coarse cotton threads.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. 100 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 100
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