Textile fragment with interlacing ovals and knots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing ovals and knots
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with turquoise and white silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 2.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 36 / 36 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1.3 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 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.
EA1984.329.b
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Catalogue text
A band embroidered with a turquoise background has four fine yellow lines of interlacing, creating ovals and knots.
The width of the band is 1.3 cm. It fills almost the entire fragment. The fragment is identical to EA1984.329.a, and both were probably once part of the same fabric.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
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