Textile fragment with tendril and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendril and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
probably linen, embroidered with pink silk; cotton backing
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 4 cm (length x width)
ground fabric, along length/width 24 / 24 threads/cm max. (thread count)
backing, along length/width 12 / 12 threads/cm min. (thread count)
ground fabric 0.1 cm (thread diameter)
backing 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
EA1984.265
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Catalogue text
An continuous tendril is set into a band and repeated mirror-symmetrically. Small paired leaves emerge from the vine.
The band is embroidered over two layers of cloth; the finer one on top seems to be linen, the lower one cotton. The shape of the band suggests that it was used as a collar or sleeve.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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