Textile fragment with stylized floral shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized floral shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue-green and undyed silk; with remains of a rolled hem
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 6.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 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.
EA1993.309
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Catalogue text
Two stylized floral motifs; each motif is composed of three flower heads with four petals.
There is a selvedge along one side, and the remains of a rolled hem at right angles to it.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. 270 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 270
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