Textile fragment with linked medallions
On display
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked medallions
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk, and thread, possibly flax and cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 3.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1984.116
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Catalogue text
A narrow band of linked medallions containing dense scrolling in a natural colour against a blue, green, and brown ground, with pink outlines. In addition there is a very narrow border on one side of the band, with a running scroll of s-shapes on a green ground.
The couching is single thread. The outline and scrolling is embroidered in stem stitch with ?flax thread.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, vol. ii, vol. i
