Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and crosses
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, dyed red, and embroidered with white flax and yellow and blue-green silk; linen backing; with remains of stitching in blue thread, possibly cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric, along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
backing, along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1993.243
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Catalogue text
Band of diamonds defined by white intercacing stitches, each diamond containing a green or yellow cross. The band has a border of linked crosses.
The fragment has a backing of undyed linen. The band runs diagonal to the weave of the ground fabric. There are remains of blue stitching, also following the bias.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. 204 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 204
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