Textile fragment with squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk; with a rolled hem in silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
14.3 x 4 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1993.202
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Catalogue text
Blue and red squares, each containing nine small squares, are arranged alternately in rows; remains of a single line of stitching form an edge on three sides.
There is a finely sewn rolled hem along one side.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. 163 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 163
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