Textile fragment with stylized birds and trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized birds and trees
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with dark-brown silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
37.5 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 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.
EA1993.41
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Catalogue text
The border has a repeating stylized bird and tree design above a narrow S band: beneath there is a narrow darned band.
"Darning" written on the original card by Percy Newberry.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. 2 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 2
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