Roundel textile fragment with blazon
Details
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Title
Roundel textile fragment with blazon
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with brown, yellow, and pale-green silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
7 x 6.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 30 / 30 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 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.
EA1984.98
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Catalogue text
A blazon is completely filled by a crescent with brown and yellow outline; the crescent and open space within the blazon contain small, fine tendrils embroidered in yellow, brown and green and ending in brown and green leaves. At the zenith of the crescent is a green trefoil.
The embroidery stitching has been done over two layers of 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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