Textile fragment with vines, leaves, and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vines, leaves, and flower-heads
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with olive-green silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
ground fabric 12.5 x 10 cm (height x width)
ground fabric 27 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fabric 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.
EA1984.462
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Catalogue text
A band with four rows of continuous vines with leaves and flower heads. The vines are arranged to create hexagonal shapes. The band also has a fine foliate border.
The embroidery is extremely fine, much of it counted over one, under one 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. iii, vol. i
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