Textile fragment with sprays of crescent-shaped flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with sprays of crescent-shaped flowers
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, embroidered with red and blue silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 14 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1993.256
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Catalogue text
Two flower sprays, each with four red crescent-shaped flowers stitched in chain stitch. The stems and small leaves are delicately curved; they have been worked in double chain stitch.
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. 217 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 217
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