Textile fragment with rosettes and lattice of diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and 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 red, blue, and dark-brown silk; with two hems in blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
9.5 x 11 cm max. (warp x weft)
along length/width 18 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
EA1993.218
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Catalogue text
Red and blue whirling rosettes are arranged alternately within a diamond lattice. A single line of brown stitching forms a border on two sides.
Two hems are oversewn with blanket stitch in blue silk. The fragment and EA1993.217 were part of the same textile.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. 179 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 179
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